Fines for Weight Cheek Refusal
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ALORRY owner, and the driver whom he had instructed not to allow the police or council officials to weigh the vehicle, were fined £20 and ES respectively at Sheffield last week.
When stopped for a routine check of the vehicle, the driver, Ernest Gosling, Barlaston, Staffordshire, refused to allow the police to weigh the vehicle. Instead, he produced a letter from his employer. Francis Ginster, Bull Lane, Moxley, Staffs, which gave "strict instructions" for the vehicle not to be weighed. Ginster accepted full responsibility for the refusal.
LITHIUM GREASE FOR PROP SHAFTS
INTIL recently the recommended lubricant for all Hardy Spicer propeller shafts and universal joints has been oil: S.A.E. 140 for normal use and S.A.E. 250 for arduous conditions. But about a year ago Hardy Spicer, Ltd., decided that their range of heavy shafts, comprising the 1600 series and upwards, should be lubricated by lithium-based grease, containing an E.P. additive.
The policy has been extended to cover all Hardy Spicer propeller shafts and joints, but it has been found that the E.P. additive is not necessary.
NO WORK FOR COAL LORRIES rOAL lorries were lying workless all
over Yorkshire, Maj, F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, said on Monday at Leeds. He refused to allow Thos. Simms, Ltd., Ossett, to carry deepmined as well as opencast coal under their B licence, and observed that the position concerning opencast coal might alter after the General Election.
That day, he. added, the National Coal Board had told him that they had no work for some of their vehicles, and a coal distributor whom he visited had by 2.15 p.m. rejected the offer of 50 vehicles, SHORT CURRENCY NO OBJECTION
AHAULIER was quite entitled to buy a special-A licensed vehicle as an addition to his fleet four months before the licence was due to expire. This was stated by Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at Leeds on Monday, when he renewed the A licence of Mr. R. Smith, Bradford.
The applicant said that he had been sub-contracting a third of his turnover and urgently needed the vehicle. Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the railways, suggested that at the time of the purchase the vehicle had been only partly employed.
OBITUARY
WE regret to announce the death of MR. THOMAS ORMESHER. Mr. Ormesher. who was 76, was for many years a leading figure in the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers and was a gifted speaker. His old-established removal business at Stockport was acquired by Piekfords.