Grant After Change in Normal User
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A N objection to an application by
Siddle C. Cook, Ltd., Consett, to substitute an articulated outfit for a rigid vehicle was withdrawn by the British Transport Commission at Newcastle on Tuesday, after agreement was reached to amend the normal user.
The July hearing had been adjourned for the production of details of work done by the rigid vehicle between October and March, after a suggestion that the normal user applied for would allow easy conversion to a low-loader.
After Mr. Cook had given an undertaking that the " artic " would do the same work and would not be converted to a low-loader. Mr. A. W. Balne. for the Commission, said the normal user applied for included "loads of exceptional weight and dimensions" and was repugnant to the legal limitations of its use.
The company had a large fleet, said Mr. T. H. Campbell Ward law, for the applicants, and had sought a normal user in keeping with their work. The Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, granted the application with an amended normal user excluding mention of heavy loads.
MYSTERY OF MUNICIPAL PAY CLAIM
REPRESENTATIVES of the Transport and General Workers' Union in Manchester and London told The Commercial Motor this week that they knew nothing of a reported new application for a substantial increase in pay for platform and maintenance staffs of municipal undertakings.
Ohs G. Blackwell, chairman of Manchester Transport Committee, was quoted in a provincial newspaper last week as saying that such an application had been made, but he did not think it would affect the department's revenue until next year.
It was impossible to contact Cllr. Blackwell this week. It is thought that he may have been referring to the claim for a 40shour week without a reduction in pay, which would, in effect, amount to a substantial increase in wages.
R.H.A. TO HELP NORTHERN OPERATORS ON MAINTENANCE
THE Northern Area of the Road Haul' age Association are to form a regional maintenance advisory committee. Representatives of both the R.H.A. and the Traders' Road Transport Association will be members. It is hoped that the committee will hold their first meeting next month, with Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, in attendance. Thereafter meetings will take place quarterly.
The object is to raise the standard of maintenance. The formation of the committee was suggested when R.H.A. area officials met Mr. Hanlon in May.
A similar committee, on which British Road Services are also represented, has done excellent work in the West Midlands.