Storage Not a Process
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ULL 'magistrates were asked to 1. 'decide last week whether transport in connection with warehousing could be done under a C licence, instead of tn A or B licence. W. Elliott and Sons 'Yorks). Ltd.. Acomb. pleaded not euilty to summonses alleging that in November and December last year they 'ailed to comply with conditions tttached to their C licence.
Mr. E. Wurzal, prosecuting, said that he sole question was whether goods mere carried for hire or reward. In October. 1953. the company entered nto two contracts with another vganization; one was to provide storige space at their warehouse at Market Neighton and the other for carrying toods from Hpll docks to the warelouse. Four vehicles were used for this )urpose.
The defendants, said Mr. Wurzal, ipparently contended that the goods were not being carried for hire or .eward because they were conveyed in ionnection with the business of storage. Ile rate of 13s. 6th per ton covered 'Mb haulage and storage. It was trgued that storage was a process of reatment and that the goods could be :arried under a C licence.
He submitted that storage could not IC a process of treatment. Furtherfore, the defendants' case was undernined by the existence of two separate ontracts, one for haulage and one for torage.
' The magistrate overruled the subnission of the defence, and the cornany were fined £2 on each summons. vith costs.
..ABOUR WILL RENATIONALIZE, SAYS MR. DAVIES IT was the Labour Party's intention.
when they returned to power, to ebuild a national integrated transport ystern. said Mr. Ernest Davies. M.P., t the annual meeting of the Scottish o-operative Transport Association in jlasgow last week. He added that the ight would be restored to the British 'ransport Commission to expand their erviccs.
The Labour Government would not ecessarily buy all the businesses sold ,ack to hauliers, for there would be no eason to do so. The nationalized fleet 'mild be increased by voluntary and ompulsory acquisitions. A successful ystem would be built up that would e able to "squeeze out those private auliers who still operated.
The Labour Party gave no assurance lilt hauliers' businesses would be taken ver. The haulier must remember that c would not be compensated again. Mr. A. Prentice. chairman of the ,ssociation, said that there were too any vehicles on the roads doing too ttle work. Taxation and congestion ere two reasons why fewer vehicles lust be worked for longer periods. apid advances in vehicle design made raf operational methods essential. In retail distribution, what the customer was most concerned about was regularity of service, he said.
NEW SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR RAILWAYS?
A'appeal against the overloading of vehicles carrying sugar beet was made at a meeting of the Bridlington branch of the National Farmers' Union, last Saturday.
Mr. R. Gratrix said that overloading had resulted in a windfall for British Railways. Beet which had fallen from farmers' vehicles and railway trucks amounted to 41 tons 6 cwt., the equivalent of the produce of about four acres, and was sold for over £250. The money went to British Railways.
PRIVATE CARS WASTEFUL
PRIVATE cars when used for transport within a city are wasteful both in the use of street and parking space. This was the theme of an American
Life Stream of the City," which was shown in London last week under the auspices of the Town and Country Planning Association. It was produced by the American General Electric Co. and dealt with public transport vehicles of all kinds and their efficient moving of travellers in and out of towns each day.
RADIO TAXIS INCREASING UTORE than 100 additional taxis with 1 V I two-way radio have appeared in London since the formation. in January, of the Owner Drivers Radio Taxi Service, Ltd., a co-operative scheme organized and operated by ownerdrivers.
The service has two transmitting stations, one at Hampstead and the other at Forest Hill, which are controlled from the organization's offices in Pcntonville Road. All the taxis are fitted with Pye Reporter Type PTC 117 VHF receiving and transmitting sets.
BONUS REQUEST REFUSED
PAA REQUEST by the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the National Union of Vehicle Builders that a service bonus be paid to maintenance workers has been rejected by Stocktonon-Tees Transport Committee. The committee contend that the matter should be decided at national level, it is reported.
Forty-five maintenance employees have returned to work after a token strike in protest against the repairing of a damaged municipal bus by a commercial concern.
CAFES WOULD DIVERT DRIVERS
ENCOURAGING drivers of heavy vehicles to use the Barnet by-pass instead of the road through Whetstone, to prevent parking of lorries in Whetstone at night, could be solved by providing sufficient café facilities on the by-pass to attract drivers to that route.
The Minister of Transport gave this information in the House of Commons last week, stating that the matter was for local authorities to deal with.