Case Against Waiting Ban for Mr. Molson
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EXT Tuesday Mr. Hugh Molson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, is to receive a deputation from the Metropolitan Traffic Liaison Committee of the Traders' Road Transport Association, Road Haulage Association and Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association, on the subject of London traffic restrictions. It will be led by Mr. W. A. \Vinson.
Meanwhile, Mr. R. E. G. Brown, secretary of the London and Home Counties Division of the T.R.T.A., has received news of a further extension of unilateral waiting in 43 streets in Matylebone, Holborn and Westminster, without the customary 20 minutes' grace for goods vehicles to load or unload on the " banned " side of the street.
Mr. Brown said on Tuesday: "We estimateon the information available to date that about 70 streets in Central London will be affected by unilateral waiting, with in each case a prohibition on commercial vehicles stopping to deliver on the ` banned ' side."
HAULIER REFUSED RE-ENTRY :UNDER A LICENCE
WHEN i 'haulier whose business had been nationalized and who had carried on hiring lorries under C-hiring margins, applied to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority for an A licence on Monday, he was told:
"The Government paid handsomely for the licences and for the past five, six or seven years you people have been getting round them with hiring licences. Now you come and say you will stop hiring and want full licences. A very big principle is involved."
The application was refused. The Authority added: "You can carry on hiring until such time as there may be a change in the law."
There were similar cases to be heard in Scotland, and some involved as many as 60 vehicles.
Applicant was Mr. J. M. Smith. partner in Messrs. J. and D. Smith, Inverness. He had hired six vehicles to two companies since nationalization.
"You got compensation when your lorries were nationalized," said the Authority, "and now you are wanting me to hand you them back without pay ing any compensation." , A DIFFICULT YEAR
T ARGELY because of the uncer
tainty created by denationalization and the lull in demand for vehicles, the year ended. March 31 last was one of the most difficult periods since the War, says Mr. W. G. Allen, chairman of Atkinson Lorries (Holdings), Ltd., in his annual statement.
All increases in, costs had been absorbed and, indeed, the prices of Atkinson vehicles had been slightly reduced.
It is proposed to increase the company's capital to £300,000.