Emergency No Ground for Licence Refusal
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" DON'T think I can regard the I present emergency as ground for refusing a licence. I have to deal with it under the 1933 Act. I know it is a factor I can take into account for the immediate future, but I have still to look at the picture as a whole."
This statement concerning fuel rationing was made by the Northern Licensing Authority last week when Mr. F. J. McHugh, for the railways, suggested that an applicant's case was inappropriate at the present time, because even if he were granted a licence, he could not use the vehicle.
Mr. G. A. Stamper, Ivy House, Culgaith, successfully applied to renew his B licence for two vehicles and to add a special transporter employed by Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., Kilmarnock. The transporter had been used under C-hiring margin, but Massey-Harris-Ferguson. Ltd., had changed their policy.
The Authority said that rationing might affect court sittings. He might have to wait until there was a number of applications from the west and take them altogether at Carlisle.
MR. ADDLESEE TO EXAMINE CARLISLE SERVICES
A RECOMMENDATION of the 1-1 transport committee that Mr. R. H. Addlesce, general manager of Wolverhampton Transport Department, should examine bus services in Carlisle, has been accepted by Carlisle City Council. The town clerk said that Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.. would co-operate.
Mr. W. J. Hunter, chairman of the committee, told the council that Mr. Addlesee would deal with the problems of fare stages and overlapping stages.
It was also agreed that as the Carlisle city services operated by Ribble had been admitted to be profit-making, the committee should try to obtain the retention of concession fares. particularly contract tickets.
RIBBLE TRY BRIDGEMASTER
AN A.C.V. Bridgemaster exhibited in the demonstration park at the Commercial Motor Show has been operated by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., from Bootle on the same route over which the company tested the prototype Leyland Atlantean. The same crews were employed and comparatiVe data were compiled.
The vehicle is a 72-seater with a Crossley body and an A.E.C. 7.7-litre engine with single-plate clutch, • NO CONNECTION WITI-I BASIC
THE Minister of Transport has reaffirmed to the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, through its president, Mr. W. R. ReesDavies, M.P.. that supplementary allowances for Aand B-licensees are in no way related to the basic ration. He confirmed that the national overall cut in fuel would not exceed 25 per cent.
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