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Bell, welding engineers and sheet-. metal workers, of Liverpool, for a new A licence was refused by Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at Liverpool, on Tuesday, without hearing the evidence,
Mr. ,I. Strong, for the applicants, said this was their first venture into haulage and they were asking for a vehicle of 8 tons unladen with a normal ' user, "general goods, England, Scotland and South Wales." Because of the distances involved it had not been possible to produce oral evidence, but letters were available from concerns in Birmingham and Dundee supporting the application.
Mr. Lindsay pointed out that in an important case of this nature he would require the strongest supporting evidence. He could not accept letters alone. There were six objectors present and, in the circumstances, he could not grant an adjournment.
ASSAULT ON 5.30 P.M. PEAK
HOPING to diminish the 5.30 p.m. I I peak, the Committee for Staggering of Working Hours in Central London are to ask the managements of West End stores to review the question of altering shopping hours. Some 14,000. employees leave the big stores for home at 5.30 p.m.
The Regent Street Association have already appealed to members, and now 40 per cent. of shop staffs—representing the office workers—leave before the counter staff.
B.R.S. AND SAFETY DRESENTING awards to drivers at
Neweastle upon Tyne last week, Mr. T. G. Gibb, north-eastern divisional manager of British Road Services, said that no organization was more conscious of the need to improve road safety than B.R.S. All vehicles were inspected fortnightly. overhauled annually. and rebuilt every three years.