Compensation: B.T.C. Going to. the Lords
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THE British Transport Commission has decided to appeal to the House of Lords against the ruling of the First Division of the Court of Session, in Edinburgh, that in calculating compensation to be paid to hauliers, the remuneration of the proprietor should be included in the profits. The Court reached this decision on an appeal by the Road Haulage Executive against an award by the Transport Arbitration Tribunal to Mr. William Elrick, trading as Messrs. Elrick and Hutcheon, Pittodie Lane, Aberdeen. The Court supported the Tribunal's opinion that the £700 a year appropriated by Mr. Elrick as remuneration, should have been included in the profits in assessing compensation. Lord Cooper said in the Scottish Court that if a proprietor's remuneration were excluded from the profits, the result 'would be so outrageous and unjust that it seemed to him incapable of being attributed to Parliament when it made the Transport Act. The case was reported in "The Commercial Motor" on February 8, 1952.
RAILWAYMEN ON B.T.C.: M.P.'S QUESTION
THREE of the four permanent I members of the British Transport Commission have experience primarily related to railways, and the Commission lacks persons with wide experience in road transport.
Sir Wavell Wakefield pointed this out, on Monday, to the Minister of Transport, and asked what steps were proposed to be taken to remedy the matter. The Minister: "I am aware of the previous experience of the members of the Commission and I shall bear this factor in mind, among others, when considering appointments or reappointments."
FURNITURE MAKERS' REPRESENTATIONS rOMPLATNTS about increases in transport charges have been made to the Minister of Transport by the British Furniture Manufacturers' Federated Associations, and the Minister of Transport has suggested that they be taken to the Central Transport Users' Consultative Committee. He has, however, agreed to meet B.F.M.F.A. repre= sentatives.
Mr. W. W. Astor was given this information by the Minister in a written reply on Monday.
M.P.T.A. CONFERENCE DATE THE annual conference of the Muni1 cipal Passenger Transport Association will he held at Llandudno from September 17-19. It will be preceded by an informal reception on the evening of September 16.
The annual meeting of the managers' section will take place at Southend-onSea on June 11-12. Trade representatives who will be in Southend at this time should inform the general secretary of the Association, Aldwych House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, SD that further information may be sent to them.