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Two New Bases for Parcels Carrier
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. A PPLICATION by NatiOnal Parcels and .GoodS Services, Ltd., for a new• base at Balls Pond Road, London, N.], has been granted by the Metropolitan
Licensing Authority. .
This. case was reported in ".The Commercial Motor" last week. The . Road Haulage Executive had. objected on the ground that ifpermission were .granted .it .would enable. the company. o. run long-distance services .after the appointed day without perniits:' .. hia letter to Mi. R. B. iirilain,.head of the company.; die..Licensing Authority points out that the change of -base was merely for the. purpose Of permitting him to continue carrYing traffic as lie had clone.for, many.years., .• At Cambridge, laA week, the cdmpany was granted a .base.at Chelmsford. Counsel for the R.H.E. saidthat the Executive did not want to take advantage of the-fact that Section 59.(5) of the Transport Act was no. longer available to the company, and it would not object if the Eastern Licensing Authority granted the application as though it had been made under that section. ln fact, it was granted under Section 58 (6).
Mr: A. H. Wild, solicitor to the Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, presented the appliCation.
[Section .58 .(6) states:".The Minister may by regulations Make provision whereby the Operating centre of a vehicle may, on the application of the holder of . the licence, be changed, either temporarily or otherwise, during the currency of a licence-under which it is authorized to be used." Section 58 (5) -gives an operator the right to specify a centre, but applies only to cases in which the present licence was granted before November 26, 1946.1
SWANSEA TO_ SWITZERLAND,
AN application by the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., Swansea, to operate Continental coach tours from that area to .Switzerland, was granted by the South Wales Licensing Authority last week. Permission was given to pick up passengers in Neath, Port Talbot, Bridgend, Cardiff and Newport. British Railways objected, but the Western Welsh Omnibus Co„ Ltd.,and Red and White Services, Ltd., supporting the application, confirmed evidence of need for such tours. The season Will be from May 7. until September 10, and the fours will be of 1.4' days'. duration, proceeding. via'. Doyer,_ Rheims, Basle, Zurich; Lucerne, Interlaken, 'Berne. Montreux and Geneva; return
Me via Paris.
NO STAY OF PETITION
I N Edinburgh, thi..-.Second Division of the Court of Session declined, last
week, to postpone the hearing of a petition by the Scottish Motor Traction Co„ Ltd., for the reduction Of its capir. tal until a .decision had been reached in. an action by preference stockholders who are opposing the reduction.
BRISTOL INDUSTRIES 'SELLS ro November 17, the assets . of Bristol Industries, Ltd., will pass to
the British Transport Commission. Negotiations between the two parties for the sale of the company's road transport interests have been protracted, but have now been concluded.
CHEAPER CASTINGS?
A S a result of action by the British r"1, S.teel Founders' Association, a research and development • division, which will aim to reduce prodUction costs and improve the quality of steel castings, has been set up.
REGISTRATIONS: BIG DROP
RGISTRATIONS of new vehicles duning August, 1949, fell by about 3,000. from the July figure. A noticeable drop was in the number of hackneyS registered in• August-739, as compared with 1,098 in the previous Month. The August figures bring the total of commercial-vehicle registratiOns since January to 12L212.