Operating Centres May be Changed After October 1 A S from
Page 29
Page 30
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
October 1, an A or Blicensee may apply to the Licensing Authority for Goods Vehicles to have the operating centre of a vehicle changed either temporarily or permanently. This provision is contained in the Goods Vehicles (Change of Operating Centre) Regulations, 1948, made by the Minister of Transport under section 58 (6) of the Transport Act, 1947. Copies of the regulations can be obtained from the Stationery Office at Id.
Applications must be made in duplicate, in the form specified in the regulations, to the Licensing Authority for Goods Vehicles in whose area the proposed operating centre is situated. If the new centre be in a Traffic Area different from that of the existing centre, a copy of the application must be sent to the Licensing Authority in whose area the existing centre is located.
The Authority must publish the application in "Applications and Decisions." As reported in "The Commercial Motor" last week, the Scottish Licensing Authority has already begun to do so.
Applications may be heard at public inquiries, and objections may be lodged by other operators on the ground that if the application were granted, there would be a waste of transport facilities.
The form which objections must take is also set out in the Regulations. Copies of objections rm.st be sent to the Licensing Authority within 14 days of publication of the application and a copy must be sent at the same time to the applicant. The Licensing Authority may consider 'objections although the requirements of the regulations have not been complied with.
Where an application to change an operating centre is to have effect for a period not exceeding three months, it need not be published and objections need not be considered. Applications of this kind must be for (a) seasonal business; (b) execution of a particular contract, or (e) a purpose of limited duration Decisions must also be published.
MR. G. P. SPROULE has left the Ministry of Supply to join Toledo Woodhead Springs, Ltd., Sheffield, as sales manager. He takes up his new appointment on October 1.
MR. F. S. HOOPER and MR. C. B. COWLEY have resigned from the board of Henry Meadows, Ltd., and MR. R. S. CRUMP, chief engineer, has been appointed technical director.
Ma. JAMES LEEK, C.B.E.. managing director of B.S.A. Guns, Ltd., B.S.A. Cycles. Ltd, and Arid l Motors, Ltd., has been appointed managing director of the Daimler group of companies on the retirement Of MR. GEORGE HALLY.
MR. NOEL NEWSOME, former director of public relations of the National Coal Board, and MR. AtsrmoNv B. LEES, until recently an assistant editor of The Farmer and Stockbreeder." have joined the staff of Harry Ferguson, Ltd., Coventry.
MR. KENNETH HORNE. sales director of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., has just returned from Bermuda, via New York. He will be heard in a new series of the favourite radio programme, "Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh," beginning on September 21.
MR. ARTHUR WALES, managing director of Wales and Edwards, Ltd., and honorary treasurer of the British Motor Trade Association, sails to-morrow (September 18) in M.V. " Antenor" for Cape Town. He hopes to tour South Africa and will be away for about six months.
MR. A. W. NF.WEY, export manager of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., flies to-day (Friday) to Copenhagen, where a range of Henley tyres suitable for the Scandinavian markets is being shown at the British Exhibition. MR. W. C. GIBBS, director and -general manager, hopes to visit the Exhibition next week.
MR. L. W. BROWNE, works superintendent of Nuffield Exports, Ltd., since his return from the Army in 1946, has been appointed resident representative of the company in Africa. He is succeeded by MR. JOHN E. ATKINS, 0.B.E.. who was previously superintendent of No. 50 Maintenance Unit, operated for the R.A.F. by Morris Motors, Ltd.
MR. W. LISTON-YOUNG has been appointed chairman. MR. J. HANCOCK, vice-chairman, MR. IVAN RAYBOULD. secretary, and MR. W. S. HOBBS, treasurer, of 'the Leicester centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. Other recently elected officers are MR. A. J. WATTS (librarian), MR. A. E. WATSON (Press officer), and MR, R. THODY (national council member).
a28
Ma. W. F. HALL, heavy vehicles sales manager of Scammell Lorries, Ltd., is making a tour of operators in Canada. A sales engineer is also demonstrating a maximum-load articulated eightwheeler and an 80-ton six-wheeled tractor. MR. A. MONCRIEFF, mechanical sales manager, is touring Denmark and Sweden in connection with demonstrations of the new Scammell Scarab mechanical horse, of which a full description and road-test report was published in "The Commercial Motor" last week. The tractor is being exhibited at the Copenhagen Show. MR. W. H. DAVIES is rejoining Charles H. Roe. Ltd., as technical sales representative and will take up his duties at the Commercial Motor Show. He has resigned the appointment. which he has held for the past 2i years. as director and general manager of Lydney Coachworks, Ltd.
MR. L. C. EDWARDS, who since 1941 has been in charge of B. and W. Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton, a company formed specifically to recondition for the Ministry of Supply, engines made by the Nuffield group, has taken up a sales appointment with Alfred Case and Co., Ltd., Birmingham. For 17 years up to 1941 he was with Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd.