Scottish Haulier "Found a Little Gold Mine"
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A SCOTTISH haulage firm carrying meat to London found, with a rapidly growing return loads business, that London seemed, compared with Montrose and Aberdeen, a little gold mine. said Sir Hubert Hull, president of the Transport Tribunal, dismissing the appeal of J. W. and J. H. McKay, trading as McKay's Transport, Montrose, against the Metropolitan Licensing Authority's refusal to grant them one vehicle on A licence based in London to
carry meat to Glasgow and north-east Scotland.
Sir Hubert Said the figures showed that the traffic•from Scotland, for which the Scottish licence was granted, had proved to be much less remunerative than the return traffic from the south of England to Scotland.
This was no doubt owing to the abilities of Mr. McKay, who had settled himself in London with the result traditionally attributed to the activities of Scotsmen who come to London." said ,Sir Hubert.
• fin the seven months ending June 30 this year, he said, the earnings by the vehicle in its operations from Scotland were £1,500. For the operations from the Landon end the gross receipts in that time were £4,200. Some £2.300 of this was earned by the vehicle licensed in Scotland and the remainder by subcontractors.
Early Fallacy McKay's could not very well argue that they were carrying the traffic badly with their own vehicle and, therefore, the argument must rest on the unsuitability of the sub=contractors. However, only three examples had been given before the Licensing Authority where the sub-contractors had been unsatisfactory.
Mr. J. -R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for the British Transport Commission, said it was one of the earliest fallacies that a newcorner to a particular branch of transport could give and would continue to give better service than the established hauliers. In this case McKay's were not dashing off hack to Scotland " every time someone wanted a .small consignment taken up. What they did, like other hauliers, was -to wait until they had a substantially full load, apart from exceptional cases.
BERET PREFERRED
ALTHOUGH the majority of Preston's " clippies are refusing to wear new hostess-style caps as part a their uniform the Corporation's Transport Department officials are not to take any action.
A spokesman said they did not press their staff to wear the cap, the beret or any, other headgear. Most conductresses appeared to Prefer the beret which has been popular for many years.
MIDLAND " RED" AWARDS MINETY-TWO members of the staff /I of the Midland "Red" Bus Company, a record annual total, have received awards for long service. There was one award for 50 years' service, 43 for 40 years and 48 for 25 years.
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