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Major Elliott's Review at Last Night's General Meeting
T'
second annual general meeting
of the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., was held last night at the Kingsway Hall,London, W.0.2. The meeting was timed to start at 7.15 p.m., when a report of the financial state of the Association was submitted, and this was followed by a general meeting open to all operators. Part of the business was the re-election of the president, chairman, vice-chairman and members of the council.
The chair was taken by Mr. H. T. Rickards, president of the Association. Several interesting speeches were made, the subjects and the names of speakers being given in our issue dated November 4, but it should be noted that the criticism of the existing appeal procedure was delivered by Mr. R. P. Winfrey, instead of Mr. D. Hopkin.
Major J. B. Elliott, chairman of the management council of the Association, dealt with the past work and intended future efforts of the Association. He paid special tribute to the work of Mr. Flin and Mr. Guilmant, and mentioned that, during the current year, 16 organizations of independent operators had become affiliated to the M.H.C.S.A., much of the credit for this being due to Mr. Logette, who, unfortunately, no longer took an active part in the Association's work and is not connected with the industry.
Major Elliott referred to the deputation received, in December last, by the Minister of Transport concerning the administration of the Road Traffic Act. He dealt with the simplified procedure at public sittings and the relief from attendance in connection with unopposed applications, and said that the strict limitation of vehicles to be used on services had practically been removed. He remarked that, in calling the attention of the Minister to various grievances, much in the way of points to which the Association objected had been alleviated.
Major Elliott also spoke in favourable terms of the stabilization of fares, and pointed out that the Association had been responsible for the first agree traent. Be also mentioned that the Association had endeavoured unsuccessfully to obtain some declaration from the railways that agreed coach fares would not be used as a basis upon which to reduce rail charges.
He dealt with the great amount of circularization work which was being performed by the KH.C.S.A., as well as touching upon contract-carriage work, the Amulree Committee, the Association's rule nisi against the Minister of Transport in the Grey Coach case, the Salter Report and the Green Line case, recently reported in The Commercial Motor. Appreciation was expressed of Mr. F. A. Walker's loyalty to the M.H.C.S.A. in his position as secretary.