THE "FREE MONTH " FOR C LICENSEES.
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A policeman stopped a lorry belonging to Carbo Ice Industries, Ltd., Treforest Estate and London, on October 31, and found that, although it was carrying a load of ice, the driver did not possess a C licence, This had a sequel at Abercynon Police Court, last week, when the Licensing Authority prosecuted the company.
The case for the company was that it held C licences for two other vehicles and had applied for a licence, in respect of the vehicle concerned, on November 23. It was stated that according to a circular from the Licensing Authority, anyone who held a C licence and who wished to licence another commercial vehicle, had a month in which to make the application; during that month the vehicle could be used for goods carrying. .As the company had not used • the vehicle in question before October 30, the application had been made in the prescribed time. The case was dismissed.
Important Midland Road Widening.
Among trunk-road improvements which are scheduled by the Ministry if Transport for putting in hand immediately is the provision of dual carriageways on the Birmingham-Birkenhead road, near Birmingham. Traffic on this road amounts to upwards of 5,000 vehicles and 1,300 cycles a day, and the existing 90-ft. single carriageway has been the scene, recently, of many accidents. The scheme is estimated to cost about £39,000 and will take six months to complete. Later, the improvement will be continued towards Wolverhampton, Pnetunatic•tyre Jubilee Celebrated.
The dinner and dance to celebiate the jubilee of the invention of the pneumatic tyre was given in London on Friday of last week by the London region of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. It was attended by more than 800 tyre dealers in London and the Home Counties.
Mr: Herbert Morrison, M.P., in proposing the toast "Jubilee," referred to the remarkable developments in road transport which had followed Dunlop's first invention, and added that only when they brought to social problems the same patience, initiative and concern for accuracy that move the inventor will they make a world safe in which to be born.
General Motors' Big Southampton Factory.
The new Southampton factory of General Motors, Ltd., is the twentieth big-scale assembly plant built for the company since the inauguration of an assembly plant at Copenhagen 15 years ago. The output of the Southampton factory, when in full production, will be 20 commercial vehicles and 20 private cars daily. The buildings, coveting six acres, are equipped with modern plant, assembly being on the travelling-line principle. A new standard type of commercial vehicle will, it is stated, be produced at a later date.