August New Registrations Slump
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EGISTRATIONS of new commercial vehicles in August were the lowest nonthly total for the year so far, due in arge measure to the holiday season and o the restrictions on hire-purchases. The kugust total was 18,800-5,625 fewer than n the preceding month.
Total for the first eight months of the fear was 201,088, compared with 174,615 'or the corresponding period in 1959. 3etails appear in the accompanying table.
War Office Refuses
ZMITH'S LUXURY COACHES --P (READING), LTD., have been .warded a War Office contract to operate .n express carriage service under an .ssisted travel scheme between Reading .d the Royal Army Ordnance Depot at Iramley, but the firm's traffic manager, Ar. Frank Masser. told the South Eastern raffic Commissioners at Reading that Var Office instructions forbade witnesses
o attend to support his application for he necessary licences.
Mr. A. J, Wrottesley, for British Railitays, who opposed the application, said ie had many questions to ask and it was ssential that a witness should appear. :mith's were asking for licences for three ervices to the Ordnance Depot from minus points in Reading which they
to Supply Witnesses
have been operating under a short-term licence since September.
Mr. Masser said he advised the Bramley depot of the hearing and asked them to provide a witness. They replied that instructions to implement the services had been issued by a higher authority. He said that Southern Command, Salisbury, told him tharin 1952 the War Office had issued instructions prohibiting witnesses attending. Mr. Wrottesley said a special train service had been operating since before the First World War for employees at Brantley and no suggestion had ever been made that there was anything wrong with it. " We simply received a letter stating that the service provided between Bramley and Reading would not be required after September 5," he said, In his view it was essential that an organization of such importance should produce witnesses to indicate the reasons.
The chairman, Mr, H. J. Thom adjourned the application, and asked Mr. Masser to make a further attempt to obtain a witness. Meanwhile, Smith's continue to operate the service under their short-term licence, NO CHRISTMAS CARDS THIS year, for the first time, Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., will not be sending Christmas cards to their many friends in the industry. Instead, the money normally spent on cards will be donated to the old folk and convalescents in the Lynwood Convalescent Home and the Nuffield Nursing Home run by The Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund (B.E.N.I.