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AN appeal by a C-licensee who had sought a B licence to enable his vehicle to operate for hire or reward and to be fully occupied, was dismissed last Friday by the Transport [Appeal] Tribunal. The appellant was Mr. L. D. Lancaster, a furniture dealer, of Gravesend, who had been refused a licence by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority.
Mr. Lancaster told the Tribunal that after finding difficulty over some years in getting local operators to carry furniture sold in his shop, he bought a 10-cwt. van and operated it under a C licence. A larger vehicle had now become necessary, but to keep it fully occupied he had applied for dirt B licence.
The greatest amount of public carrying that he would do was between halfand three-quarters of a load twice or three times a week. He submitted that there was ample work in the district to justify the grant of the licence.
The British Transport Commission, A. L. Baldock, Ltd., Cobham, Kent, and J. Heamden, A. M., G. W. hnd A. T. Cooter, A. Baldwin, A. L. Barnes and F. Edwards, all of Gravesend, objected.
Mr. C. R. Beddington, for the haulier objectors, submitted that the evidence had been insufficient to justify granting a new licence for a new vehicle. There had not been an instance of delay in any household removal that caused any real inconvenience to anybody. It was unreasonable to expect any contractor to have sufficient transport for all the work precisely when wanted.
Mr. James Amphlett, for the B.T.C., submitted that the demands being made were unreasonable.
The Tribunal said that there was sufficient evidence to show there were reasonable complaints, but the objectors had discharged their onus of proof that the grant of the licence would lead to an excess of facilities.
MEASHAM AT OLYMPIA
THE Measham Motor Sales Organiza1 tion, Ltd., are to conduct sales in the National Hall, Olympia, London. For the first sale, entries of all types of used vehicle will be accepted from May 24-27 for auction in the afternoons of May 26 and 27.
New British Standard on Batteries
ANEW British Standard for road-vehicle batteries will be issued shortly. It will lay down standards of quality and methods of testing in the interest of vehicle users.
Mr. A. W. Browne, chairman of the Chloride Electrical Storage Co,, Ltd., who makes this announcement in his annual report, adds: ." More important still, it sets forth a schedule of standard battery capacities, dimensions and layouts which will greatly simplify the production problems of the battery maker and will enable him to give quicker deliveries by reducing the number of different components which have to be kept in stock."
Mr. Browne expects a good return from the company's purchase last year of a controlling interest in the Hart Battery Co., of Montreal, Canada.
NORTHERN BUS STATION PLANS
A TENDER has been accepted for r"k the construction of an £11,160 bus station in Victoria Road, Washington, County Durham. Operators are to be ipproached to discover whether they vill co-operate in planning a station at ::rook. Stockton-on-Tees Corporation save dropped their scheme to build a ms station in John Street.
The Crook station will cover two cres and underground bus parking laces may he provided.
Private operators were not in favour f the Stockton plan. The corporation reposed asking the Minister of Transort to make an order directing private )mpanies to use the station, but the iunicipality might also have been tstructed to work from it. The general anager of the transport undertaking ,plained why this would be undesirde, and the scheme was abandoned.
SILICONE SHOW ON TOUR , TRAVELLING exhibition describk ing the properties of silicones is tour the country. Organized by idland Silicones, Ltd., 19 Upper nok Street, London, W.I, it will be en in Nottingham at the technical lege from June 22-26. Invitation ds can be obtained from the cornty.
he whole range of silicones will be ered. including Silastomer silicone ber, Drisit water repellents, electrical nishes and resins, anti-foam agents, Lsh additives, lubricants and paints.
MAINTAIN TYRE PRICES"
UE need a far greater determination V to maintain prices by traders asclves," declared Mr. C. F. Warren, ing president of the National Ts re ributors' Association, when he e at the Association's annual er in London, last week. He ared the incidence of price-cutting le tyre trade.
r. C. Atkinson was installed as the president. MORE COACHES TO TORQUAY
DERMISSION for another 24 vehicle journeys to be made between Sheffield and Torquay in July and August has been granted to Mr. C. G. Littlewood, a Sheffield coach operator, by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. When he applied for permission to use additional vehicles and for unlimited duplication during Sheffield and Rotherham holiday weeks (The Commercial Motor, April 30), Mr, Little
wood said there were more than 1.200 people on the waiting list for his service. The Authority's grant will enable about half this number to be carried.
Insuring Against Loss of Use
A SCHEME of insurance against the rl loss of use of vehicles has been devised by Messrs. Sasserath, Alfed and Co., 199 Piccadilly, London, W.I.
The scheme is in two parts. One provides cover should a vehicle be off the road because of theft or damage, and the other damage or theft by persons unapprehended. The insurers pay the cost of hiring a replacement vehicle Up to a limit of £5 a day for a maximum of 90 days. Cover is available only to vehicles which are comprehensively insured.
For commercial vehicles rated under the first part of the scheme, annual premiums arc: Up to 30 cwt., £7; and 30 cwt.-3 tons, £8. Premiums for the other part are half these sums. Premiums for heavier vehicles may be had on application.
NEW BUS SHELTER FOR £41
COMPLETE protection is claimed to be given by a new bus shelter which Gabriel, Wade and English, Ltd., Suffolk Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, arc producing at a price of £41. Known as the Greaves wind and bus shelter, it consists of five vertical screens forming a zig-zag pattern and a wide overhanging roof.
The shelter is constructed with wooden posts and roof framing, Weyroc timber sheets and felt roof covering. The softwood used is stated to he weatherproof and resistant to rot and worms.
Simplicity is the keynote of the design, and two unskilled workers can erect the shelter in a day. Site preparation is almost negligible.
TURKISH ROAD PROGRESS NAORE than 9,380 miles of new roads In have been built in Turkey since 1950 and the number of vehicles in use in that country has doubled. There are 23,938 cars, 5,510 buses and 24,722 goods vehicles. Figures for 1950 were 10,000, 3,185 and 13,200 respectively. Most vehicles are registered in Istanbul, Izmir and Ankara.
S.U.T. Apply. for Service to South
SUBMI N G that Sheffield people
were travelling farther afield as a result of longer holidays with pay, Sheffield United Tours, Ltd., applied to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at Leeds, last week, for permission to run express services from Sheffield to Bournemouth and Ilfracombe. The application was opposed by British Railways.
Mr. A. Goss, for the applicants, said that if the application were granted. coaches would leave Sheffield on Friday evening and arrive at their destinations on Saturday morning.
Mr. B. Goodfellow, general manager of S.U.T., said that many Sheffield people wanted a through road service to -Bournemouth and Ilfracombe.
One of two witnesses who appeared for the applicants said he would never again go to Bournemouth by train.
The hearing was adjourned.
FIVE SPEEDS FOR COMETS 'THE five-speed gearbox introduced a 1 year ago as an alternative unit in Leyland Comet 90 chassis is now to he standard equipment in all the cruiserweight models apart from the shortwheelbase ECO2.5R and ECO2.6R Comet-Scammell tractors, which will still retain the four-speed gearbox. A high-speed or low-speed 10 h.p. take-off for intermittent use can be fitted to the new gearbox. A full-torque power-takeoff is also available.
57% OF LORRIES PROHIBITED
PROHIBITION notices were imposed on 57 of 100 goods vehicles examined on the road at five points in Rotherham on May 12. Eleven of the notices were of immediate effect. In the other 46 cases, delayed notices were issued.
The inspections were carried out by Ministry of Transport examiners in conjunction with Rotherham police.
During the past year similar checks have been made at Leeds, York, Halifax, Dewsbury, Barnsley, Goole and Chesterfield. The lowest proportion of defective vehicles (34 per cent.) was at Leeds.
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BACK TO LONG-DISTANCE WORK VOLLOWING their purchase of a I. number of British Road Services vehicles, W. C. Forder and Sons, Ltd., Strand Garage, Bingley, will resume their services to ports in the north and to the Midlands next Monday.
At the time of nationalization, the British Transport Commission acquired 21 long-distance vehicles operated by Forder and their subsidiary company, H. Sutcliffe (Keighley), Ltd. Meanwhile. Forder have been operating two vehicles on short-distance work. With their subsidiary company, Wardways, Ltd., they also operate 18 coaches.
80 MORE TIGER CUBS
Preplace Leyland Tiger 35-seat single-deckers, many of which have covered over 750,000 miles in almost 20 years' service, the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., are adding a further 80 Tiger Cub 44-seaters to their fleet. The company already have 50 Tiger Cubs. which average 14.12 m.p.g. Docking periods are at 30,000-mile intervals—the same as for heavy vehicles.
NIGHT ROAD RISK
ROADS are three times as dangerous by night as by day, and the proportion of night-time accidents is
increasing yearly. These points are made in "A Matter of Light or Death," a publication of the British Electrical Development Association, 2 Savoy Hill, London, W.C.2. It makes out a case for improved street lighting.
Nationalization in India Arrested
INDIAN State governments had gener1 ally said that they did not want to extend their activities in the field of bus nationalization, the Minister of Transport, Mr. Lal Bahadur Shastri, recently told the House of the People.
The Punjab Government have offered another scheme to private bus operators as an alternative to nationalization. Government-owned and private buses in equal numbers would operate on all routes.
The working committee of the Punjab Motor Union have rejected a proposal that a corporation be established with 40 per cent, of the shares for the Government, 40 per cent. for private operators and 20 per cent. for railways.
The Bihar Rajya State Transport undertaking made a profit of 4.2 per cent. in 1952-53. The figure for 1953-54 is not yet settled, but is expected to be 7 per cent. on capital invested.
BOTH CONTESTANTS WIN
NOTWITHSTANDING opposition by Hebble Motor Services, Ltd., the Minister of Transport has approved Bradford Corporation's scheme to extend to the Buttershaw housing estate their projected Wibsey trolleybus route.
On the other hand, subject to a change in the terminal point, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority has granted Hebble's application, opposed by the corporation, for a new motorbus service between the centre of Bradford and the Buttershaw housing estate, in addition to the company's services which already run to the estate.
The Bill to obtain Parliament's authority for the extension of the Wibsey trolleybus route had its formal first reading in the House of Commons last Friday.
NO EXPLORATOR APPEAL
IT is understood that Explorator, Ltd., 1 Lowestoft, are not to appeal against the decision of Honiton magistrates (The Commercial Motor, March 26) that they were liable to a higher rate of taxation on their container vehicles than they had paid.