Disposal Board Tours Continue : R.H.A. Survey Completed
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FORTIFIED by the report of the Road Haulage Association on the requirements of free-enterprise hauliers in transport units, the Road Haulage Disposal Board are continuing their tours of the divisional organizations of the Road Haulage Executive.
This week members of the Board visited the Midland divisional headquarters at Birmingham and the Western Division at Cardiff. They were accompanied by Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell, chairman of the Executive, Mr. G. F. Sinclair, a member, and Mr. G. W. Quick Smith, secretary and legal adviser.
Next week the whole Board will meet Lord Bilsland, who is available for consultation on all questions concerning Scotland, and inspect the Scottish Divi sion of the R.H.E. They will be in Glasgow on Thursday and Edinburgh on Friday. Special attention is being given to Scottish interests.
The R.H.A.'s survey, which is believed to have been presented to the Board this week, has revealed that in some areas the dern.and for vehicles is likely to exceed the number available. The greatest demand is found to be for platform vehicles, followed by tippers
• and vans.
This information is given by Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, chief executive officer of the R.H.A., in an article to be published next Wednesday in the July issue of The Road Way.
" As the Association has always expected, the greater number of prospective purchasers desire to have fewer than five vehicles," he says. " It may safely be said that probably 65 per cent. of prospective purchasers will be in this category. This means that for ready sales at the best prices, the Disposal Board should concentrate on making a large number of small units available in the first stage of their programme."
Mr. Morton Mitchell believes that if these conditions are fulfilled, 25,000 vehicles will be taken up before next spring. POLICE CHIEFS AND C-LICENCE BREACHES
A LLEGED infringements of C-licence I-I conditions wcre expected to be discussed by the Chief Constables' Annual Conference which opened at Eastbourne on Wednesday. This followed on a recent meeting between Home Office and Scotland Yard officials and representatives of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers.
The Association's case was that a C-licence vehicle carrying goods other than those in connection with the licence holder's business could not be regarded as being insured.
A suggestion that the Association should ask the Accident Offices Association to remind policyholders of the importance of carrying only those goods for which cover is given, was recently approved by the executive.
II% INCREASE BY LEYLAND IN the first six months of this year, I Leyland output rose by 11 per cent. Although there was a decline in the company's exports generally, because of the restriction of imports by some countries, shipments of heavy-duty and Comet 90 vehicles were greater. The number of double-deck buses delivered to British operators was doubled.