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How can a rates structure be -built up in each area when there are two• separate organizations of A, B and C licensees? This question was put by Mr. C. -B. Nixon, presiding at a
luncheon given by the S.M.M,T. at Earls Court, op Monday, to members
and guests of A.R.O. , There should, he added, -be joint offices in each area.
Dealing with the question of haulage prices, he warned operators of the danger of the railways cutting agreed road rates:Mr. Nixon added that the S.M.M.T. ' was • recommending makers to specify maximum pay-loads for their vehicles. The prevention of overloading Wat a necessary measure in the stabilization of the industry."
Major H. E. Crawfard, president ofA.R.O., said Oat it was in 1909 that the •Government first recognized the big contribution to national wealth made by commercial road. transport. After all these years, the Minister of Transport was again realizing that fact
Mr. Burgin to Visit Glasgow.
Mr. Leslie Burgin, Minister of Transport, will be the principal guest at the Royal Scottish Automobile Club's dinner in Glasgow to-night (November 12). Lord Weir will preside.
Others to be present are :-:-The Earl of Elgin, Lord Kenilworth, Viscount Trenchard, L'ord Provost of Aberdeen, Lord provost of Edinburgh, Lord Stevenson, Sheriff Sir Archibald Black, Principal Sir Hector Hetherington, and Sheriff Robertson.
" Secret Deliveries" Quoted in Application.
For the applicant, Mr. V. R. Shepherd said that in the ease of refined fats and greases, the firm for whom Mr. Duff principally. worked had to keep secret from their customers the source of their materials, because certain fats and greases were refined at certain
refineries. In order to 'avoid deterioration, too, • :the applicant made it his business to deliver the fats within, at most, 48 • hours.
• Another feature, too,
was that Mr, Duff would receive a-con-, signment of -fats and grease delivered to his yard. He then' took a sample, gave it to the firm, removed all marks from the barrels and re-marked them, thereby providing a facility which other operators were not able to give.
Mr. G. H. P. Beanies, for the railways, said that; from the practical point of View, the applicant had had his B-licence vehicle lying idle -to some extent and, in order to use it more fully, he wanted a greater radius, Decision was reserved: New Firestone Depot.
The Firestone Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., Great West Road, Brentford,-. announces the opening of a new district office and warehouse, under the management of Mr. E. O'Hanion, at 27, Blackstock Road, Liverpool, wheic big stocks of tyres will he maintained.
More Pay for Co-op. Workers.
Increases' in wages affecting 8,500 transport and other workers employed by, London.Co-operative Society, Royal Arsenal Cooperative Society,, South Suburban Co-operative Society, Enfield Highway Co-operative Society and Grays Co-operative Society have been agreed with the Transport and General Workers Union. Rises ranging from 3s. to 105, are involved, as well as a five-day working week of 46i hours.
Adult drivers of commercial vehicles will receive pay ranging from 66s. to 82s. a week. Overtime will be paid for at the rate of time and a quarter. Holidays ranging fromsix to 12 working days will be given, according to length of service.
Three Seconds for the Amber.
As the result of representations made by highway authorities to the Minister of Transport, it has been decided to fix the period of the amber tight an signal installations at three seconds. MAILS CHANGED FROM WATER TO ROAD: The, Post Office has decided that the mails for Lcichgoilhead, at . present carried via Greenock by the MacBrayne motor ship " Comet," shall be conveyed by road. The change comes into operation on December 1.
• Mails will be carried by vans from Dunoon to Cairnclow, and thence by another . van to Lochgoilhead. The change aims at giving residents in the Lochgoilhead area 'an earlier delivery in letters.
Jennings's Big Show Business.
J. H. Jennings and Son, Ltd., Sandbach, advises us that, during the first two hours of the Comthercial Motor Show at Earls Court it received orders to the value of over £37,000 for various
'tYpes of hodywork. Many of these orders,we understand:, were. received from E.R..F., Ltd.
Shipping Guide for 'Hauliers.
The following is the number .of ships arriving at the London dockC, wharves and jetties married, from November 1220 inclusive :--Docics : King George V, 12; Royal Albert, 11 ;Royal Victoria, 3; Surrey Commercial, 8; West India, 2.; South-West India, 1; Tilbury, 12; Tilbury Stage, 3; Millwall, 7; London, 1. WHARVES: Hay's, 7; Middleton's, 1; Butler's, 1. Tilbury Jetty, 4. Regent's Canal, 1,
4,000 Customers Fear Rail Cross-examination.
The extraordinary statement that, of 4,000 customers of Ex-Army Transport, Ltd., not one would attend or send a representative to face the railway questions about their business, was made by Mr. H. Backhouse, solicitor for the applicant, at a further hearing of the company's application for 10 7-top vehicles, Mr. Backhouse. said that the traders simply would not be questioned by representatives of the railway companies about their business, but 200 of them had written supporting the application.
Mr. B. de H. Pereira, for the objectors, stated that of the 204 letters, only 91 were relevant to the inquiry. These referred to delays and inconvenience, and he pointed out that the Appeal Tribunal attached importance to letters only from traders who had previously given evidence. • From t h e letters it could not be known what efforts, if any, had been made to find other means for transport.
December 1 and 2 were provisionally fixed as dates for further hearing. " TRANSFER " APPLICATIONS.
The following are among recent applications for the transfer of vehicles: W. J. Allen, Fraser Road, Trafford Park, from P. Street—seven vehicles (161 tons); Fox's Motors, Ltd., Viaduct Street, Blackfriars, from G. W. Leggott and Son, Ltd.-26 vehicles (92* tons); Whattou's Transport, Ltd., from F. J. Palmer, Austrey--seven vehicles (18 tons).
Thatcham Road Transport Service; Ltd., has made application for 18 additional A-licence vehicles (60 tons).
Stop This Hysteria, Says Minister.
That road-accident figures should be regarded in their right proportion was a point made by the Minister of Transport (Mr. Leslie Burgin), in a speech at the annual dinner of the Spen Valley Chamber of Commerce, last Friday.
.. The problem of road safety was great, he said, but he hoped that people would not allow themselves to be stampeded by the thought that the figures of road casualties were something
wholly disproportionate. They were bad enough, but that was no reason why people should not look at the accident. figures in their right proportion.
When they talked of 240,000 acci dent§ a year on the road, they should remember that each year there were 426,000 accidents which came within the scope of the workmen's compensation, legislation, 135,000 in mines and 175,000 in factories, L.M.S. Manchester Application Still Proceeding.
A further day devoted, last week, . to the still-incompleted hearing of applications by the L.M.S. Railway Co. for extra vehicles at eight Lancashire. bases, including Manchester and Liverpool, was chiefly concerned with 12 vehicles on the Manchester licence, which, during its currencY, had not operated at all in Manchester.
Mr. Gilbert Woodward, for the railway company, urged the need for Euston having vehicles at various places, which might be drafted where required to meet calls that could not be estimated in advance. • Mr. W. Chamberlain, the North Western Licensing Authorit'y, reminded .Mr. Woodward that he was not told, when the tonnage for Manchester was fixed, anything about these relief vehicles. Therefore, the estimate of Manchester requirements put before him must have been a long way out. PERSONAL PARS.
MR. J. A. GREENWOOD, who has been associated for some time with TillingStevens, Ltd., has now joined Wells and Mayner. Ltd., the Midland coach specialist of Birmingham.
We regret to learn that MR. GEORGE MURRAY, formerly of T.S. Motors, Ltd., and Dennis Brothers, Ltd,, is very ill and is without a position. We trust that he will make a rapid recovery.
MR. L. C. BEST, B.Sc., technical editor of The Motor ,Trader for 17 . years, has been appointed secretary LO the Mechanization Board, War Office. Mr. Best is a graduate of Sheffield University.
MR. R. C. CANNON, a member of the Leyland sales staff in India, who recently returned to the company's headquarters on a routine business visit, is leaving for India after the Commercial Motor Show.
MR. STUART CAMPBELL has recently been appointed to the staff of British Timken, Ltd., Birmingham. After a training peribd in England and America he will return to act as resident service engineer for the company in Australia and New Zealand, . MR. DONALD Mr:Com:ELL has been appointed chief engineer of ,Specialloid, Ltd. MR. H. WaLs is now chief testing and experimental engineer of the company, whilst MR. GRAHAM, chief engineer, has been given further responsibilities on the executive side."
MR. GEORGE DEKrka, who. was appointed chief .engineer of Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd., last March, is responsible for the design of the new Dodge 26-passenger chassis, also for the redesign of the complete range of goods vehicles of this make exhibited at the Show, Previously to this? Mr. Dexter was in the engineering-design department of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd." He hat also had experience with Armstrcing Saurer, Morris.Commercial, Lancheater and Rolls-Royce.
Factory Courses for Fleet Owners' Mechanics.
A new scheme, which should prove of interest to large operators, has been initiated by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., which has made arrangements for short courses of instruction in maintenance for fleet oWners' mechanics. The cciurse occupies only two days, and has been designed to provide comprehensive instruction in the best ways of inspecting and servicing the various chassis in the Fordson range.
The classes are held in the company's works at Dagenham. To supplement the factory courses, special mobile " schools " have been instituted. These comprise specially equipped vans, in the charge of competent instructors, who visit fleet owners and advise on maintenance and servicing problems..