Contract Licences: First Scots Inquiry
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OGUS contracts are gradually to he 1-) stamped out by the tightening-up of licensing procedure, said Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, when, last week, he held the first public inquiry in Scotland into an application for Contract A licences. He sat also in his capacity of Regional Transport Commissioner.
Mr. Joseph Grant, of Broughty Ferry, applied for licences for three vehicles to be run under contract for Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Dundee. The vehicles would be running loaded for 70-80 per cent, of their time and there would be full employment for about 10 months of the year, it was stated.
Mr. Robertson, although paying :ribute to Mr. Grant's integrity, pointed to the temptation to undertake work outside the contract during the period when the vehicles were standing idle.
Mr. James Fairweather, transport manager of .S4.L, agreed that the summer months were quieter than the rest of the year, but said that the lorries would be used in laying up stores of manure in Dundee.
Mr. Robertson held that the contract was proved, and granted the licence and petrol, BEARING RANGE EXTENDED
THE range of standard wrapped bushes marketed by the Glacier Metal' Co., Ltd., 'Alperton, Wembley, Middlesex, has been extended to include bushes of 3-in. bore, There are now 198 English sizes in the range, from
to 3-in, bore, and 127 metric sizes, frain 10 mm. to 58 mm. bore.
TAXI STAND MONOPOLY ENDS WITH the ending of the contract held VV by John Croall and Sons, Ltd., with British Railways for the use of the taxicab stand at Princes Street Station, the 180 members of Edinburgh Licensed Hackney Carriage Association have been enabled to use the stand. For some time they have been contesting the monopoly system in allocating rights to ply for hire at railway stations.
It is understood that.the contract at Waverley Station has about a year to run.
RECORD TYRE EXPORTS
BRITAIN exported 500,000 more tyres in the first four months of 1949 than during a similar period of 1948, which was a record year. Rather more than half the total of 3,937,946 tyres was fitted to vehicles.
THE FIGHT AGAINST DERMATITIS.
A N inflamed condition of the i—Iskin resulting from the continuous handling of certain substances is termed dermatitis. Some operatives are more subject to it than others, but the risk is always there, however resistant the skin might be to normal ailments.
Medical officers and all concerned in the welfare of industrial workers would do well to secure a copy of a booklet published by Innova, Ltd., Balls Pond Road, London, N.1, in which the preventive measures that should be taken, against dermatitis are fully explained.
WAKEFIELD CELEBRATES JUBILEE
I AST week, C. C. Wakefield and Co., La Ltd., celebrated the jubilee of its foundation in 1899 by the late Viscount Wakefield. The story is told in a booklet entitled Fifty Years of Progress in Scientific Lubrication," tightly packed with anecdotes and illustrations, many in colour, covering the company's life. It is available from the offices of the company, Department JCM, 46, Grosvenor Street, London, W.I.
WELDING WITHOUT TEARS
ACOMPLETE guide to oxy-acetyIene welding technique, in the form of a wall chart, is available from the Suffolk Iron Foundry (1920), Ltd., Stowmarket. In addition to heat tables and conversion factors, the chart indicates the correct rod, flux, size of nozzle and other details for welding various metals of a given thickness. Although nominally priced at 2s. 3d., one copy will be supplied free to bona fide oxyacetylene welders.