3tricter Watch on :-licence . Breaches
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CLOSER watch by the police on infringements of C-licence condits is likely to be the outcome of :esentatiorts made to chief police :ers and the Home Office by the ional Association of Furniture rehousemen and Removers (reported he July 10 issue of The Commercial tor).
n reply to a request that they should and policyholders of the importance carrying only those goods for which er is given, the Accident Offices .ociation have stated that they do not I called upon lo remind a particular lion of vehicle owners that use of an nsured vehicle makes the operator , }le to a penalty.
MOVERS' LICENCE CONDITION SETTLED
DLLOWING further representations by the National Association of -niture Warehousemen and Removers the vexed question of the wording removers' B licences in the Metroitan Area (August 14 issue of The mmercial Motor), the Licensing thority has now decided to revert to wording used before the Transport t, 1947, was passed. The phrase was arniture and effects as a household -loyal contractor."
['he Authority has also clarified the m " household " by stating that it rers such work as "the removal of office or of a hospital or school and would not be necessary to specify particular items of this sort."
3ef ore the revised conditions are posed, all B-licensed operators conned will be advised of the conditions will be given an opportunity to ke representations. .They will also informed that the conditions pre[de the carrying of new furniture unless it is carried "at the same time and for the same person as the furniture removal is undertaken."
POLICY ON OBJECTIONS
A PROPOSAL for the formulation of
a national policy to be followed by members in presenting objections to applications for licences is being considered by the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers. The opinions of experts all over the country arc being gathered.
F.B.I. EXPORT CONFERENCE QOME 150 businessmen engaged in exports will confer at the export sales conference of the Federation of British Industries to be held at Buxton from October 30-November 1. There will be five discussion groups, each to deal with one of the following subjects: Discovery of opportunity; organizing for exports; relations between exporter and importer; export sales force; creation of opportunity.
Results of the conference will be published. Opening speeches will be made by Sir Harry Pilkington, chairman of the F.B.I., and Sir William Rootes, chairman of the Dollar Exports Council.
BUS DRIVER "TOO YOUNG"
THE coroner conducting an inquest at Leicester, last week, into the death of a bus driver, stated that the man was aged only 21 and had been driving for two months. He had been killed and 50 people were injured when the bus he was driving overturned.
"It is too young to be driving a vehicle of that kind and risking el those people's lives," the coroner. commented.
NEW TAXICAB TYRE
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A NEW taxicab tyre has been pro
duced by the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., in sizes 5.00-20, 5.50-18 and 5.75-16. A Gold Seal product, it has a wide centre rib for long wear under the conditions thattaxicab operation impose.