TOO MANY - LETTERS AT INQUIRIES B ECAUSE, in some instances, applicants
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have submitted so many supporting letters, without previous notice, that there has not been time to examine them all in detail at the hearing, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority has introduced into the notice of place and time of hearing the following suggestion: "It 'would be a convenience if applicants who intend submitting more than, say, twelve supporting letters at a .public inquiry would forward to these offices copies sufficient for the Licensing Authority and objectors at least seven days before the date of the inquiry."
A similar suggestion is made with reference to financial or statistical information to be produced.
Accompanying the notice is guidance in the form of a memorandum containing extracts from the Walker appeal decision.
EXPORT TYRELESS TRACTORS
ALL tractors should be exported without tyres. Such is the recommendation given by the Machinery Advisory Board to the Government, according to a committee member of the National Farmers' Union. The Government had also been asked to try to import tyres to suit the large imported tractors in this country, and to stop the retreading of tractor tyres.
MORE BRUSH DISTRIBUTORS
TZ0 more distributors have been L‘ippointed for Brush battery-electric vehicles. Auto Service Garage, Ltd., Bournemouth, will distribute these vehicles in Dorset, South Wiltshire and South Somerset. and Messrs. Nichol( and Sons, of Bedford, in the counties of Bedford, Huntingdon and Northampton.
MORE BIG SALES
BIG sales of Government surplus vehicles will be held at Kirmington, North Lincolnshire, on August 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20 and 21, and at Elstow storage depot, near Bedford, on August 19-21. More than 5,000 machines will be auctioned at the Kirmington sale.
B.R.E. SUPPORTS 130,000,000 ROAD SCHEME
THE British Road Federation, which has protested to the Ministry of Transport against the cuts in the Ministry's 10-year highway development plan, is supporting a plan for a £30,000,000 road connecting Newcastle-on-Tyne with Scotland and the industrial Midlands.
FIVE-DAY WEEK DOES NOT • RAISE OUTPUT
INTRODUCTION of the five-day I 44-hour week, with pay as for a 47-hour week, had not in itself increased output, said Mr. W. F. Spurting, chairman and managing director of Spurting Motor Bodies, Ltd., at the company's annual. meeting.
Consequently, the management was endeavouring, by general improvements in conditions, not only to save the extra cost of the shortened week,
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but to ensure that all haurs worked should yield a 'greater outlant.
He referred to the possibility that the company might increase its capital.
COMPARATIVE FREEDOM THE plight of the independent haulier. J. who will not be nationalized, but may be squeezed out of business by competition from the British Transport Commission, is emphasized in a pamphlet entitled "Justice for-the Haulier and the Public," which has just been issued by the Road Haulage Association.
PERSONAL PARS
MR. J. S. DAVIS has been appointed a Dunlop sales official in India and is now on his way to Bombay, MR. T. R. WILLIAMS has been appointed a director of the Rhondda Transport Co., Ltd., in succession to the EARL OF HOPETOUN.
MR. E. I. Boom has resigned from the position of chief transport officer to the Ministry of Food and is resuming his duties of general manager of R. Cornell, Ltd.
MR. TREVOR L. DAVIES, costs officer of London Transport, has been appointed accounts officer, in succession to the late MR. P. A. PHILLIPS, MR. W. I. WINCHESTER has been appointed to the new position of accounts officer (general).
MR. E. L. TAYLOR, A.C.A.. M.Inst.T., secretary of Barton Transport, Ltd., has been appointed to the executive staff of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd. Mr. Taylor joined the Barton concern on its conversion to a public company in October, 1927, and takes up his new duties on October 1 next.
MR. W. C. CLEMENS, 0.B.E., M.Inst.C.E., will retire to-morrow from the post of divisional road engineer, Metropblitan Division, Ministry of Transport. He will be succeeded by MR. G. H. HARGREAVES, MC., B.SC., Minst.C.E.. divisional road engineer for Wales and Monmouth Division. Mr. J. F. A. BALER, A.M.Inst.C.E., A.M.Inst.Mun.E., will replace Mr. Hargreaves.
CLOSER CONTROL OF GROUPS, ,. NEEDED?
QPEAKING at a meeting of group managers held by the National Association of Road Transport Groups, Mr. F. Rudman, chairman, said that the time had come when group operation of vehicles should be more efficiently co-ordinated. It was no longer sufficient to rely on voluntary co-operation.
He thought that consideration should be given to the possibility of groups having more effective control over their own vehicles. The National Association Might, perhaps, be placed in a position' to control, to some extent, the group organizations.
These questions are to be set out in the form of a questionnaire to be submitted to the groups.
Mr. White (Portsmouth) said that his group had made arrangements for hand
ling tomato traffic from Jersey. The allocation was a minimum of one boat and a maximum of three boats a day, with 200-300 tons per vessel. The bulk of the traffic would be for the Midlands and North, and he invited all groups to co-operate in handling it. To enable the traffic to be dealt with efficiently, Direct Motor Services (Sheffield), Ltd., is to act as agent for Yorkshire, Chesterfield, Derby, and Grimsby; Macclesfield and District Transport and Trading Co., Ltd., for Lancashire and Staffordshire; and Birmingham Road Haulage, Ltd., for the Midlands and Leicester.
LEARNER-DRIVER IN VAN: NO INSTRUCTOR
ACASE is reported in "The Police Review" in which a woman learnerdriver was stopped by a police constable because she was unaccompanied by an experienced supervisor. She pointed out that her provisional licence contained a printed statement to the effect that a learner-driver was not required to be accompanied by a qualified driver, if the vehicle were not adapted or constructed to carry more than one person. She said that although there was space for a person to sit at her side, there was no seat.
When the constable reported the matter, he was told by a superior officer that no offence had been committed.