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CARTER PATERSON TO ACQUIRE BIG FLEET.
Application has been made to the North-Western Licensing Authority by Carter Paterson and Co., Ltd., to acquire the vehicles at present operated by Karriers Parcel Delivery, Ltd. The total number of vehicles involved is 65, 47 of which have their base at Liverpool and 18 at Manchester. The total tonnage of the entire fleet is 141-1.
Control of the applicant company was acquired jointly by the G.W., L.M. and S., L. and N.E. and Southern Railway companies in October, 1933. Mr. James Paterson, M.C., who is on its board of directors, is also chairman of Karriers Parcels Delivery, Ltd., which company started its first parcel-delivery , service in 1919, Super Garage and Hotel for Drivers.
Mr. Walter Elliott, Secretary of State for Scotland, was due yesterday (Thursday) to open a big garage and drivers hotel in Glasgow. The garage, erected on a site in Broomielaw, will have cost £200,000 when completed. There will be sleeping accommodation for about 150 men.
Designed on modern lines, the garage has been constructed by the Road Transport Co. (Glasgow), Ltd.
London to Have Oil-engined Cabs?
Oil-engined taxicabs in London in the not-distant future, were foreshadowed by Mr, L. W. J. Hancock, B.Corn.(Lond.), of F. Perkins, Ltd., in a lecture delivered last Tuesday to the Institute of the Motor Trade at the Holborn Restaurant, London.
His subject was the British highspeed Diesel engine, with which he dealt exhaustively, including a description of the salient features of the new Perkins light six-cylindered unit which is similar in weight and size to a comparable petrol engine and has higher output and markedly superior efficiency.
From the 200 members of his audience innumerable questions were forthcoming after the address, and, if these may be regarded as significant, the lecture aroused keen interest.
Rates Structure for 400-mile Removals.
A committee of the Yorkshire Furniture Removers Association is preparing a schedule of rates fol furniture removals up to a distance of 400 miles. Previously, the Association's discussions on rates stalailization centred on the extension of the present local_ removals rates machinery, operating in a number of Yorkshire cities and towns to cover removals, which, including the outward and return journeys, can be carried out within a day's work.
A still wider range of standardization is now being considered, because it is desired that the Association shall provide a 400-mile schedule which can be BIS fitted into the general rates structure in preparation by the employers' panel of the Yorkshire Joint Conciliation Board.
When this removals schedule has been approved • by the Yorkshire Removers' Association, that body will then consider up to what distance it shall be applied for the present. It is not anticipated that, in the first instance, the stabilized rates will be introduced up to the full distance of 400 miles. DECEMBER'S EXPORTS TAKE A FALL.
The Board of Trade returns for December, 1937, show that the value of commercial vehicles, cars, chassis and accessories importedduring that month was £443,626, contrasted with £491,478 in the comparable month 3i 1936. For the complete year their value totalled £5,159,369; which contrasts with £4,217,838 for 1936.
The number of commercial vehicles exported was 234, which is an appreciable drop on the previous year's comparable figure (326), and not a big advance on the 1935 figure of 198 Their value, however, did not show 11 proportionate fall, and at £76,638, -was less than £3,000 lower than the total (£'79,254) for December, 1936. In the year 1937, 3,815 commercial vehicles were exported, contrasted with 3,341 in 1936, their values being £1,058,998
and £967,820 respectively. , Coming to commercial chassis, here, again, we find that there was a drop in the total for December, 1937, ccmpared with that for the same month of 1936, i.e., 943 against 1,141. In this case the value was £195,713 in December last, and £199,598 a year earlier. In the full' year, 16,616 com merical chassis were exported, contrasted with 13,555 in 1936, a notable advance which is reflected in the comparative values, the total af £2,181,030 for 1936, rising to £2,771,821 a year later.
HAWKER APPEAL HEARING IN MAY..
On special application, last week, the appeal Tribunal promised to expedite the hearing or the appeal of H. W. Hawker, Ltd., and the case will probably be heard early in May. The plea for an early hearing was made on set eral grounds.
It was argued that there had been considerable delay in announcing the Licensing Authority's decision. The difficulties which prompted the application to the Licensing Authority for extra tonnage has been increased and allegations had been made by the Licensing Authority concerning the illegal employment of subcontractors.
Government Call for Trailers.
Commissioners of H.M. Works and Public Buildings invite tenders for the supply of four-wheeled trailers for heavy pumping units. Details are obtainable from the Controller of Supplies, H.M. Office of Works, Storey's Gate, London, S.W.1.
Electricarss New Factory.
Electricars, Ltd., Birmingham, has taken over a much larger factory than its existing premises in Lawley Street. It. covers 40,600 square ft., and more room is available for expansion. The new address is Webb Lane, Hall Green, Birmingham, Record British Sales in Australia.
British motor manufacturers are making notable progress in the Australian market; retail sales of their vehicles during November, 1937, constituted a new record. In all, 3,917 commercial vehicles and 16,673 cars of United Kingdom manufacture were sold in Australia during the 11 months ended November last.
Makers Should Fix Capacity.
The question of a standard definition of the load-carrying capacity of goods vehicles was one of the subjects discussed at a meeting of the International Federation of Commercial Motor Road Transport recently held in Paris.
Our French contemporary Ls Plaids LOtird reports that a resolution was adopted to the effect that the "charge -utile," or useful load of a vehicle, should be that fixed for any particular chassis by the manufacturer, so that the total load includes the weight of the driver's cab and bodywork.
Mr. Burgin Impressed.
During his visit to Germany, last week, Mr. Leslie Burgin, Minister of Transport, was particularly impressed by the new motor roads and with the methods employed by German road builders. He travelled at 85 m.p.h. on ice-covered roads„ without chains, with a feeling of perfect safety. Whilst he was of the opinion that no country could afford to ignore Germany's example, the construction of such roads was purely a matter of local conditions. The reaction to Mr. Burgin's recent visit to Germany will be awaited with interest.