Ancillary Vehicles Being Hired ?
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WHEN Thomas Lishman and John Humphreys, timber and haulage ' contractors, of Spa Farm. Witherslack, appeared before KeAdal County Magistrates, last week, on charges that they had wrongly used their C licence, it was alleged that "dozens of people" in Westmorland and Lancashire were It:ring out ancillary vehicles.
Lishman said that he was under an agreement. with a Bournemouth company which paid wages to both Humphreys and himself, and took over the vehicle. He was not aware that an owner-driver was not allowed to do this.
Humphreys maintained that he had been employed by the company for months. Lishman agreed and alleged that the Licensing Authority had been aware that they had been operating in this manner.
Defending, Mr. E. G. Wilson said that there had been a genuine hiring of the vehicle which had never been denied, and that the defendants had made a reasonable interpretation of the law.
Fines and costs totalling £59 3s. 6d. were imposed.
LP.C. PROGRAMME A PAPER on comparative costs of Lk mechanical and non-mechanical disposal of refuse is to be read by. Mr. A. E. Barton, Manchester's director of public cleansing, at the autumn meeting of the Institute of Public Cleansing. This will be held in conjunction. with the Public Works and Municipal , Services Congress and Exhibition at Olympia.
A paper on the recruitment and training of public cleansing supervisors will be presented by Mr. P. D. Fairlie, Glasgow's director of cleansing. Both papers will be read on November 19, I.R.T.E. EXETER CENTRE?
THERE is hope that with an increase in membership, an active centre in the Exeter area may be formed by the Institute of Road Transport Engineers. Meetings that have been arranged to• take place in the Rougetriont Hotel,. Exeter, are as follows; October 21, lecture on lubricants and greases by Dr. E. M. Dodds; November 21, paper on thin-wall bearings by P. T. Holligan; March 3, 1955, paper on costing vehicle maintenance by H. Rossington.
T.R.T.A, RALLY PRIZE
ASPECIAL prize has been awarded by the West Riding Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association to the driver of a C-licensed vehicle who obtained the highest nun-ber of marks in his class in the Leeds Road Courtesy Rally, He was Mr. T. Hodgson, head driver of the Woodlesford depot of the Regent Oil Co.. Ltd. -ire came 10th in the rally and gained third prize in his class.