ROAD HAULAGE CHARGES ASSESSORS
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A SSESSORS have been appointed to Cl.assist the Regional Transport Commissioners in putting into effect the procedure under the Road Haulage Charges Order. The road-transport assessors are, in general, drawn from panels consisting of the road members of the Regional Road and Rail Committees. They average eight in number to each of the 14 regions and subregions. The traders' assessors are appointed on the nominations of the Traders' Co-ordinating Committee on Transport, and the National Farmers' Union.
The. panel of assessors in each region varies according to the staple trades and there are 268 of them in all. There are only 11 in the Southern Region, whilst in the North-eastern Region the panel comprises 36 assessors representing various trades.
REGIONAL TYRE OFFICERS APPOINTED
LAST week, the Ministry of Supply Laissued the following list of Regional Tyre Officers:— P. p. L. Stevens, 41-45, Grey Street, New
castle-on-Tyne, 1.
R. P. Roche, 44, The Headrow, Leeds, 1.
R. H. Doughty, Grosvenor House, Friar Lane, Nottingham.
J. H. Bell, Sussex House, Hobson Street, Cambridge.
C. A. Cook, 44-45, Palmerston Place, Edin burgh, 12, G Bennett Roger, 14, Crown Terrace, Aberdeen.
E. J. Garland Mount Ephraim House, Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
W. P. Gardiner, Romney House, Tulton Street, London, S.W.1.
J. N. Forster, Chiltern Court, St. Peter's Avenne, Caversham, Reading.
C. A. Stride, Beacon Road, Queen's Road,
Bristol, S. J. Lewis, Graham Buildings, Newport Road, Cardiff. • J. F. Blomfield, York House, at. Charles Street, Birmingham, 3. 3, Warnock, Arkwright House, Parsonage Gardens, Deansgate, Manchester, 3 A. D. Beggs, 18, Blythswood Square, Glasgow. P. Cl. Welch, care of Petroleum Officer, Armagh House, Ormemz Avenue, Belfast.
Except Belfast all addresses are those of the Regional Transport Office.
BETTER POLICE LIAISON URGED TO FOIL GOODS THIEVES A 5 an outcome of discussion at a recent meeting of the Road Transport Section of the Leeds Incorporated Chamber of Commerce, on pilferage of goods in transit, the Chamber has asked the Board of Trade -to stress to the Ministry of Home Security the need for an improvement in liaison between police authorities with a view to facilitating the detection of thieves. It was agreed to remind all members of the Section as to the need for operators to register with the HaulierS' National Traffic Pool if they wish to carry Pool traffic.
TO THE MEMORY OF MR. HENRY SPURRIER
AFUND is to be established to endow one or more scholarships as a memorial to the late Mr. Henry Spurner, founder of Leyland Motors, Ltd., and that company's only managing director for some 40 years. Mr. E. S. Shrapnell-Smith, C.B.E., has accepted the chairmanship, whilst the Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley and Mr. Horace Shanldaad are to be vicechairmen, Mr. W. F. Mallender hon. treasurer, and Mr. E. L. Cadwallader hon. secretary.
DAY RATES IN SCOTLAND
THE Scottish Carriers Association, in calling attention to the recent regulation governing increases in haulage rates, points out that in October, 1940, the following schedule was recommended to its members:— •
RATIONALIZING RETAIL MILK DISTRIBUTION
AMINISTRY OF FOOD and Ministry of War Transport scheme for the rationalization of retail milk distribution was explained at a meeting of Bradford milk retailers last week. The scheme involves the exchaoge of customers by milkmen, so as to reduce the area which each of them covers. The meeting formed a committee to work out details for application of the scheme in Bradford.
PERMITS DO NOT NECESSARILY MEAN FUEL
kjOW that the basic ration is 1 abolished, it is not necessarily the case that an allowance of fuel follows automatically on the issue of a permit, or an A, B, or C licence. Neither permit nor licence carries with it an absolute right to a fuel supply, which depends entirely on the work the vehicle is doing and where it is engaged. Incidentally, the standard of work considered necessary in the national interest is getting higher.
LIGHTING FIRES WITHOUT PAPER
SSOME '8,000,000 out of the 12,000,000 in this country have gas laid on, and instead of using paper for lighting fires they might well employ gas pokers. At the same time, these are to be used„ with care, for coal is also a scarce commodity. Many of the other homes are in the country, and they can depend for kindling upon twigs, fir cones, tied leaves, etc., using very greasy or greaseproof paper only where essential (manufacturers of fire lighters state that they are now selling some 12,000,000 per week). Even greasy paper can be reclaimed, but greaseproof paper is of little use.
DOUBLE FARES FOR LATE BUS TR AVE LLE RS• pASSENGERS holding certificates showing need to travel in connection with their work, and members of the Forces, are to be given priority on the last ordinary services of Manchester Corporation, leaving the city at 10.40 p.m. each night, also on the night buses at 11.40 p.m. and 12.40 a.m. Other passengers will be carried only it accommodation be available after certificate-holders have taken their places. Furthermore, noncertificate holders will also have to pay double 'fares. The arrangements come into operation on April 20.
REPAIRERS COMMITTEE FORMED IN YORKSHIRE
FOLLOWING the suggestion of Mr. E. J. Ryde, of York, who was recently appointed honorary repairs adviser to the North-eastern Transport Commissioner, a committee representative of motor-vehicle repairers in the West and East Ridings of Yorkshire has been appointed to co-operate with him.
The members of the committee have been appointed by local sections of the Motor Agents' Association.
SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES AGAIN THE North-eastern Transport Commissioner, Major F. S. Eastwood, recently held, in Sheffield, his first public inquiry since the outbreak of war. The inquiry, which concerned a haulage permit application, was held under the Commissioner's general wartime powers.
The applicant, Mr. Cyril Cooper, of Deerpark Farm,, Thrybe-rg, near Rotherham, sought an A permit, his case being that he required it for the purpose of aLquiring a road haulage business from Mr. K. M. Smith, of Rotherham. There was opposition to the application, the issue being raised as to whether a business did in fact exist for Mr. Cooper to acquire.
The Commissioner, who held the inquiry' because of the complicated character of the case, reserved his decision.
A FAITHFUL READER PASSES
WE have just lost one of our oldest and most consistent readers in the person of Major James Junner, father of the present Editor, who died last Friday at the age of 86. He was a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Scotland, and his native caution and sound advice were much valued.