`C-licence Tax Wo uld Hit the Public'
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[ACTING swiftly to reports of the Labour Party's plans to take restrictive action in the C-licence field if returned to power, the Trades Road Transport Association on Monday issued a statement emphasizing that an extra tax on Calicensed transport would certainly be felt by the public. Everyone would have to pay more for his goods, said the statement, if discriminatory taxation were used to force traffic onto the railways. A survey by the Association among firms using their own transport had shown that among the main reasons why they did so Were: speed of delivery and certainty of timing; cost; elimination of damage and pilfering; the need for specialized knowledge on the part of the driver; and the need for specialized vehicles.
A commercial undertaking was concerned not only with direct transport costs but with the total real costs; it was no gain to use outside transport facilities if, in consequence, goods arrived . at the wrong destination or were delivered late.
Almost all goods in the shops were
delivered by vans and lorries .oneratina under C licence, said the T.R.T.A., iiid if These vehicles were satgled-out for discriminatory taxation they would still hto, e to be operated, but the extra cost would hay.> to he passed on to the customer. This extra tax would be felt by the public whether or not a manufacturer or trader continued to use his own vehicles. If the vehicles were retained the cost would become part of production; if they were disposed of the effect of the tax would still he present, in that traffic would have to be diverted to a means of transport known to be less effic:ent than the company's own vehicles.
Holden Companies Move THE Manchester haulage company.
James Holden Junior (Crumpsall) Ltd., and its associates, Holden (Fruit Transport) Ltd. and W. Glibbery and Sons Ltd., have all moved to new premises at Bower St., Newton Heath. Manchester, 10. (Telephone: Collyhurst 4272,)
MARKER LAMPS REMINDER QPERATORS are reminded that from July 24—next Wednesday—all trailers and semi-trailers over 7 ft. 6 in. long, excluding drawbar, must carry front corner marker lamps, while trailers over 30 ft. long, certain vehicle/load combinations and supported loads (with certain exceptions) must carry side marker lamps.