Illegal Picking Up on Tours ?
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ALLEGAT1ONS that operators of excursions and tours were unlawfully picking up passengers outside Oswestry were made by Mr. R. Jones at last week's meeting of Oswestry Trades Council.
He was concerned with operators who came into Oswestry at week-ends or to mid-week dances under excursion and tour licences.
"From personal experience," he said, "I know that these people are openly flouting the conditions attached to their licences. They are returning home after coming to Oswestry and instead of operating according to their tours licences, they are more or less running a stagecarriage service back from Oswestry and picking up anybody where they like."
Local operators were losing money because of this unauthorized activity and many drivers working at week-ends were not getting the correct rates of pay. Mr. Jones referred to the shortage of enforcement officers.
OBITUARY
WE regret to announce the deaths IT of CAPr. JOHN B. WALTON, M.I.MECH.E., M.I.R.T.E., Mr. T. G. RICHARDSON and Mr. L. W. A. WHITE.
Capt. Walton, chief transport engineer to the Unilever organization, who died suddenly last Friday aged 63, was apprenticed to the Lowca Engineering Works, which included work on steam and petrol vehicles. Later he was interested in coal distillation and henzole by-products. In the 1914-18 war he was seconded as engineer to the National Shell Factory, with 5,000 employees, but soon entered Tank production. In 1943, he wrote to the editor of The Commercial Motor suggesting the setting up of a panel of up to 15 qualified men to have a luncheon meeting every three months to discuss the design and suitability of goods vehicles for their work. The editor saw much • more in this scheme and developed the idea for the formation of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, in which he received full co-operation from Capt. Walton.
Mr. Richardson was general manager of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., from .1926-48. Previously he was general manager of the West Hartlepool undertaking.
Mr White, who was 52, was a Nottingham solicitor, and was well known in the area for his knowledge of road traffic law. He was an alderman and vice-chairman of Nottingham County Council.
HAULAGE COMPANY WOUND UP
A N order for the compulsory winding up of Hope Valley Transport, Ltd., King Street, Bakewell, was made by Mr. Justice Roxburgh in the Chancery Division on Monday on the petition of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, who had two judgment debts of £593 and £457.