Can Trade Plates be Used in Hauling Trailers to Docks?
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(-IAN a tractor legally be used under
a limited trade licence to deliver trailers to the docks for shipment? This was the point to be decided in the Kings 'Bench Divisional Court on Monday, when Carrimore Six Wheelers, Ltd., appealed against a conviction by the Old Street Magistrate.
The company had been fined flO and I:5 Ss. costs for using a tractor under a limited trade licence in 'Contravention of Proviso B, Regulation 30, Ariicle'BI of the Roads Act, 1920, by carrying -goods that were not the ordinary form
• of ballast for purposes other than test ing the vehicle. -.
'According to the case stated by the
• magistrate, the tractor was drawing a new trailer on which was another new trailer. Both. trailers were being taken to. the doeks .for shipment. "
A " Pick-alio& " 11.4u1 Mr. C. Lawson, for the "appellant, said the. points raised were., whether a tractor was permitted to draw a trailer tinder a limited trade licence and whether it Coidd be said. that the trailer on the other trailer was being " carried "
by the tractor. '
He argued that the trailer which was being drawn was part of the tractor and as both trailers were being taken to the docks for shipment, no offence had been committed.
In dismissing the appeal with costs, lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice, said it Was obvious that the legislature intended the holder of a limited trade licence to be severely circumscribed, so as not to act as a haulier or transporter.
It was clear that what was licensed in this case was the tractor And not the trailer. It was being used to carry a loaded trailer. It was impossible to say that the load was carried for the purpose of testing the vehicle. Why the two trailers should be regarded as part of the vehicle, he did not know, He was of the opinion that the vehicle was being used in breach of the regulations.
There was a proviso that if a new vehicle were used under a limited trade licence in the course of its delivery to A port for export, it could carry any load, provided that it was not for hire or reward. This meant that "if a new vehicle were being driven to the docks for export, it might take goods at the same time. The vehicle in this case was not a new one.
ONLY 'FIVE STANDING
UNDER an agreement between the Transport and General Workers' Union and the London Transport Executive, only five standing passengers will be carried during certain specified hours from August 29 next.'
TO FIGHT RADIO REGULATIONS
QNEROUS restrictions on the use of radio in coaches proposed in the new draft Conditions of Fitness Regulations (summarized in "The Commercial Motor' on June 10) are to be opposed by the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association.
NOT A BUILDING MATERIAL
ACCORDING to Chatham magistrates, clay is not a building material. A haulier who carried this commodity; but was authorized by his licence to handle only building materials, was fined a total of £.3 and was ordered to pay £3 3s. costs.
Ford Sets Up New Spares Division
ON August 1 the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., will set up a new service, parts and equipment division under the management of Mr. A. G. Payne. This organization will review and formulate plans covering all aspects of the spareparts business, including production planning, purchase, manufacture, stocking, costing, pricing and the general economics of parts and accessories business at home and abroad.
Mr. Payne joined the cornPany in 1931, and since 1932 has been successively wholeshle' managir and assistant sales manamer. He will continue to represent the company on the couno:I and management and commercial vehicle conimittees of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
FIRST MOTORWAY: ORDER SOON
PIA 27-MILE length of road will be specified as a motorway in the first Order under the Special Roads Act, which will be made shortly. The motorway will run from north of Twyning, Gloucestershire, to north of Lydiate Ash, near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. It will have two carriageways and Will be 93 ft. wide overall. It will be part of a proposed motorway linking South Wales and Bristol with the city of Birmingham.
B.T.C. COMPANIES TO APPEAL
TWO nationalind road haulage com l. panies will figure among the appellants before the Appeal Tribunal at Halifax House, Strand, London, W.C.2, next week. On July 26, the Tribunal will hear appeals by Hay's Wharf Cartage Co., Ltd., against a decision of the Western Licensing Authority, and by T. A. Savage against a decision of the North-western Licensing Authority.
On July 27-28, the Railway Executive and H. and G. Duffield (B.T.C.), Ltd., will appeal again-St a grant to Charles Chapman, Lid., by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority.