Stage-service Claim Rejected
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FE Minister of Transport has dis missed appeals by J. Laurie and Co. against the Scottish Traffic Commissioners' refusal to allow them to run a stage service between East Kilbride and Eaglesham and to grant the Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., five stage service from East Kilbride.
He has not accepted Laurie's argument that their application should have been heard in isolation. He agrees with Mr. I. J. Cunningham,. Q.C., who heard the appeal, that the common practice of .considering interrelated applications together was appropriate.
• In their decision, the CommissiOners had regard to the operation of unremunerative services by Central The Minister, says he "has no wish to diminish the importance of this factor in genera!, but he has not himself given much weight to it in this case, since the evidence on the point seems to him somewhat inconclusive."
CONQUERS ON SHOW
LIVE light commercial vehicles are to
be exhibited by the Rootes Group at this year's Geneva Show, which opens on March 10. They will be a Commer l5-cwt. van, a Routevendor mobile shop and a caravan based on the 15-cwt. vehicle; a Commer Cob van and a Karrier Gamecock 3-4-tonner.
At the Leipzig fair, which opens on February 28, the Group will be showing a Commer 12-seat bits and a 7-ton lorry with two-stroke multi-fuel engine.
TESTS ON TRAILER
A CRANES 100-ton trailer to be used
to carry hydro-electric machinery from La Coruna, Spain, to a new station at rielesar, on the river Mina, has been tested over 18 miles of narrow, twisting roads to teach the Spanish crew.
The unit is 112 ft. long and has been delivered to Fuerzas Electricas del Noroeste, S.A., Fenosa. The tractor is a Scammell Constructor.