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AN unopposed application by Geo. Rutherford and Co., Ltd., coal merchants and hauliers, Newcastle upon Tyne, was heard by the Northern Licensing Authority last week. The company were applying for a continuation of their existing B licence in respect of eight vehicles, of which three had not been taxed since December,
1954. • Mr. P. M. Heslop, secretary of the company, told the Authority that his company had been in existence for over 50 years and had over 4,000 registered customers. Haulage was only ancillary to their main business and did not amount to a great deal each year, but a certain amount of work was done for the National Coal Board.
It was the practice each year to lay up three vehicles for about three months. Vehicles were hired to replace them. The three vehicles in question were not suitable for house coal deliveries, being tippers, but the drivers were used to work extra shifts on the other vehicles, being experienced in this class of work.
The Authority said that be was satisfied there was a need for eight vehicles. "I consider it my duty to inquire into all these cases where vehicles are shown to be untaxed at the time of renewal, to see whether or not there is a need forthe continuation," he observed.
The renewal was granted without modification.
PLATFORM STAFF PROTEST AGAINST ELECTION PAMPHLET nRIVERS and conductors employed by Sheffield Transport Department last week threatened to ban overtime unless an election pamphlet giving details of their wages was withdrawn by the transport committee.
In the pamphlet, Cllr. S. 1. Dyson, chairman of the transport committee, and a Labour candidate, sets out a comparison of weekly wages for 1945 and 1955. He quotes the average wage of a driver as £1I 9s. a week and that of a conductor as £11 6s.
The transport workers allege that to reach these figures a driver whose basic wage is £7 8s. for 44 hours would have to work 67 hours, and a conductor, who is paid £7 3s. for 44 hours, would have to work even longer.
HOLIDAY SERVICE APPEALS ALLOWED QUBJECT to the deletion of Clee thorpes, three operators have been successful in their appeals against the Yorkshire Licensing Authority's refusal to allow them to run holiday express services from Yorkshire to Cleethorpes and Skegness.
The Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., and the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., will operate jointly from Keighley, and Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., from Bradford.