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EXTRA SEAT MEANS EXTRA TAX. IN an unusual_ prosecution at Dundee
Sheriff. Court, last week, Dundee Tea Co., Ltd... 18-20, Gallowgate, Newcastle, admitted using a van in an altered condition which. brought it within a lass fot which a higher duty was payable. The van, licensed as having an unladen weight of 11 cwt. 84 lb., was found to weigh 12 cwt. 27 lb. Being over 12 cwt., the vehicle was brought into the taxation class of £15 per annum, compared with £10 per annum.
For the company, it was stated that• it had always been under the irnpres sion that it was permissible to have an extra seat in aVan in Such Circumstances, provided it was not fixed. It was added that this 'seemed to be -the general impression in the motor trade. Sheriff.Malcolm imposed a'fine of £2.
Fire-engine Required Abroad.
THE City Engineer's Departinent af Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, is calling for tenders for the supply of a petrol-driven fire-engine with sundry equipment, and fuller details may be obtained from the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, SAVA, reference T22434/39 being quoted.
GAS VEHICLES FORGE AHEAD.
I T is stated by a French contemporary that gas-producer vehicles made more progress in France during 1938 than in any previous year. Although there were 879 such vehicles in use in 1930, the number 'fell steadily in 1931, 1932 and 1933; dropping to 610 in the lastnamed year. The tide, however, then began to turn, the numbers rising steadily to 700 in 1934, 1,300 in 1935, 2,485 in 1936 and 4,436 in 1937, whilst at the end of the past year the total had reached nearly 8,000. This contrasts strangely with the half a dozen or so machines in this country.