NO RIGHT OF CROSSEXAMINATION.
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The right of a railway representative to• cross-examine was successfully challenged during the hearing of an application before the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority (Mr. E. Russell Gurney), at Sheffield.
Messrs. W. J. Shikell and Son, general hauliers, of 14, Oxford Place, Doncaster, sought authority to take over the business of Mr. J. H. Sentance, of Alverley, near Doncaster. One vehicle, under an A licence, was involved in the application. Although the application had been listed for hearing, Mr. P. G. Bibbings, A.R.O. Yorkshire Area secretary, for the applicants, submitted that there was no right of objection to it, as it came under Section 11 (3) (b) of the 1933 Act. As the application had been listed for hearing he did not contest the right of the railway companies or anyone else to make representations, but be contended that they could not be heard as objectors and that they had no right to cross-examine the applicants or any witness.
Mr. Gurney upheld the contention of Mr. Bibbings and granted the application as a non-notifiable one.
Fuel-transport Difficulty Overcome.
Is a haulier who is authorized to carry coal and coke debarred from conveying firewood? This question was raised at Leicester. Mr. J. H. Stirk, East Midland Licensing Authority, said he favoured the use of the condition " solid fuel," employed in the NorthWestern Area, to meet the situation.
An Application to Take Over Three Scottish Services.
An application has been made to the Southern Scotland Licensing Authority by Young's Express Deliveries, Ltd., 4, Gordon Street, Paisley, for permission to take over 25 vehicles and one trailer (82 tons) at present operated by Messrs. Thomas D. Galbraith, William H. Stewart and James T. Dowling, with bases at Glasgow and Leith.
The vendors were recently respondents to appeals which were dismissed by the Appeal Tribunal.
' 100,000 Sq. Ft. for Tool Making.
Last Friday afternoon, before a gathering of many prominent personalities in the motor and engineering industries, to whom he was introduced by Mr, R. H. Roberts, thairman of Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd„ the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Dudley, MC., T.D., DL., J.P., formally opened what must be oue of the largest press-tool-making shops in Europe, or, indeed, the world.
This new factory, situated in Bordesley, Birmingham, is designed as a " tool room" for the eight other Fisher and Ludlow factories, in which steel pressings of all kinds are produced for the motor and other trades, It covers about 100,000• sq. ft. of floor space and contains such fine machines as Keller automatic die sinkers, as well as an array of planers, millers, slotters, shapers, drillers and grinders.