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Hauliers Must Go to Court Again

20th June 1958, Page 39
20th June 1958
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WHEN a haulage company was YV accused at Newcastle upon Tyne, last, week, of misusing B licences, the defence claimed that the cases had been dealt with in February. Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw appeared for the company, T. T. Walker, Ltd., and contended that they had no case to answer.

He told the magistrates that on February 19, Walker's faced 42 summonses. It would be a serious matter if it transpired that the case had not ended there.

Mr. J. L. R. Croft, prosecuting, said that at February's hearing, 28 cases were adjourned sine die; and it was these that were now to be heard. The court register showed that the company had not entered a plea in any of the 28 charges.

It was decided that the case should be heard by the magistrates who dealt with the earlier proceedings.

CROWN LOSE APPEAL ON LOOKERS' TAX

THE Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed a Crown appeal against a judgment by Mr. Justice Vaisey that £3,519 paid by the Austin Motor Co., Ltd.. to Lookers, Ltd., was not part of Lookers' trade profits for 1955-56 assessable for tax purposes.

The court have upheld his view that the sum in dispute was a capital payment as compensation for the variation of an annual agreement under which Lookers bought and sold Austin vehicles and that it was no part of Lookers' assessable profits (The Commercial Motor, March .14).

Leave to appeal to the House of Lords was granted.

STILLAGES ON TWO DECKS CONSTRUCTED by Redhill Body 1.-• Building Industries, Ltd., Three Bridges, Sussex, for the Express Dairy Co., Ltd., a new van body is equipped with double-deck racks for carrying stillages at two levels. The 1)64 is fitted with a Burtonwood tailboard hoist which incorporates rollers. Rollers are fitted also to the racks at both levels.

After being raised by the tailboard hoist, the stillage can be transferred to the rack on the rollers with little manual effort. The tailboard is detachable and can be used as a trolley. It is normally loaded by fork-lift truck or hand stillage truck.

'CONTAINERS SHOULD BE WELCOMED IN EIRE"

THE attitude of trade unions in Dublin to cross-Channel container traffic was criticized in the Eire Chamber of Deputies, last week. by Mr. T. J. Crotty (Fine Gael). He said the opposition to containers was short-sighted, because they would improve efficiency in the transport of agricultural and industrial goods, and would have the ultimate effect of increasing employment.

if dockers at Dublin refused to handle containers, industrialists would use other ports and the dockers themselves would be the losers, he added.

Soviet Craft Delivered to Henley

A Nunusual load passing through'

London on Tuesday comprised five Russian racing craft bound for Henley. Graham Adams, Ltd., Kingston, subcontracted the job to George Bristow, Ltd., Kingston, because Bristows had a suitable cradle for mounting on a Cornmer 7-tonner with which to carry the craft.

At the Surrey Commercial Docks the Commer picked up a racing eight, 65 ft. 7 in. long, a four, 45 ft. long, a double-sculler and a pair, each 35 ft. long, and a single-sculler, 29 ft. long, from the s.s. Baltika. The craft rested on the cradle at a slight angle over the cab of the vehicle.

No special route was followed by the oufit. Russian crews are practising this week for next week's Royal Henley events.

Pickfords moved a gasholder from one side of the Tees to the other last Sunday. It weighed 37 tons and stood 20 ft. high. Its 20-mile journey took 101 hours. Telephone and electricity cables were moved and the load had to be lowered to pass under the superstructure of the Newport Bridge across the Tees at Middlesbrough.

HAULIERS PREOCCUPIED WITH RATES

D ATES appeared on the agendas of

two committee meetings of the Road Haulage Association this week—the long-distance hauliers' committee on Tuesday and the international hauliers' committee on Wednesday.

The international committee have formed a rates sub-cominittee under the chairmanship of Mr. J. A. Murly, who is chairman also of the main committee.

WAKEFIELD SKYSCRAPER

-1-1 A NEW headquarters building for the Wakefield group of companies is to be erected facing Marylebone Town Hall, London. To be known as Castrol House, the building will be mainly of two storeys, dominated by a 16-storey tower reaching to a height of 170 ft.

The floor area is approximately 150,000 sq. ft. and provision is made for parking 100 cars underground. The building is due for completion by the end of 1959 when the group celebrate the 60th anniversary of their foundation.

Glasgow Acts to Free Congestion

CAR. parking is to be banned in a large area of the centre of Glasgow. The Secretary of State for Scotland has approved a plan which will prohibit parking in 82 streets and allow only unilateral parking in stretches of 17 others. No-waiting regulations will be introduced on main traffic roads leading into the heart of the city, but there will be no ban applied to the fruit-market area.

The new restrictions were suggested in a scheme put forward by Glasgow Corporation as a partial solution of the city's traffic problem.

At the public inquiry into the corporation's plan, it was stated that more than 5,000 vehicles were parked daily in the city centre, and that the number using the streets was increasing at a rate of 8,000 per year.

GUY UP-RATE OUTPUT FIGURES

THE method of rating the power output of the engines fitted in their vehicles has been changed by Guy Motors, Ltd.. to achieve uniformity with Continental and American manufacturers. The company said on Wednesday that they had in the past been conservative when publishing performance figures. Engine power and torque ratings were those obtained at the end of a running-in period of eight hours.

However, it was the practice of a growing number of engine makers to give figures relating to the fully run-in condition after approximately 120 hours' running.

New ratings for three Guy models are as follows: Warrior. S.A.E. rating 110 b.h.p., net output 100 b.h.p., torque 240 -lb.-ft.; Formidable, S.A.E. rating 160 b.h.p., net output 150 b.h.p., torque 360 lb.-ft.: Invincible. S.A.E. rating 160 b.h.p.. net output 145 b.h.p., torque 430 lb.-ft


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