List 8 a Great Success
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SALES of vehicles in list 8 of transport units have been extremely high. The Road Haulage Disposal Board are gratified by the result, particularly as prices have been well maintained. It has fully justified the policy of continuing to cater for the needs of small buyers.
Fairly early in the consideration of tenders, 68 per cent. of the vehicles offered were allotted to tenderers. When this issue closed for press, tenders in two divisions were still undecided.
Tenders for vehicle-only units (1,462 out of a total of 1,482 offered) closed on December 8 arid those for units with premises had to be submitted by December 22.
"C" VEHICLE BORROWED: USERS FINED
AFTER Phoemax, Ltd., Temeside, Ludlow, had been fined £2 and ordered to pay 14s. costs last week on a charge of using a vehicle to carry goods without a licence, a member of• the company intimated that an appeal might be lodged.
As reported in The Commercial Motor last week, the vehicle in question bore a C licence in the name of Mr. William I. Bebbington, Norton Farm, Craven Arms. Mr. Albert Westmead, a member of the defendant concern, borrowed the van to carry a load of blowlamps and did not pay for the loan of it.
Westmead produced a telephone account proving he had made a call to the office of the Licensing Authority. He said he had been told that he would not be committing an offence if he used the van.
"Someone in that office knows he has made a mistake, and isn't man enough to stand by it," Westmead commented. He thought he had given sufficient proof that he had done his utmost to abide by the law.
RAIL TAKES BUS PASSENGERS
ABOUT 1,500 fewer passengers a week are travelling on the joint bus service run between Leeds and Bradford by the respective transport departments, now that British Railways have introduced an oil-engined train service in the West Riding.
A Bradford official said last week that when the rail service was first introduced, the loss of passengers on the joint service was some 2,000 a week, This had since declined.
From the middle of June to the end of September, the number of rail passengers between Leeds and Bradford rose by 80,000 and takings increased by £4,558.
WHITBY. BRIDGE CLOSURE?
AN order to close Whitby Bridge roadway for six weeks from January 17 is to be sought by North Riding County Council to enable repairs to be done.