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23rd November 1951
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

ON Wednesday, the Central Fares Committee discussed the recommendations of the Regional Fares committees which in the past few weeka have been reviewing the question of the agreed fares charged on express services radiating from and returning to London.

• No indication was given of the trend of the discussions, but applications for higher charges will probably soon be lodged with the Metropolitan Licensing Authority. Present rates represent an advance of 25 per cent. over the prewar figure.

THE agricultural contracting mittee of the British Agricultural Contractors' Association has recommended the following charges for the hire of tractors: 15s. per hour, including driver, or •2s. per . mile; low-loader, Is. 6d. per mile each way.

It is also recommended that when tractors are used for transport work, customers should be advised that a charge will be made for travelling time, but that this cost should be dealt with, if possible, in the acreage rate..

To offset the recent 8s. rise in wages,. rates should be increased by 2i per cent., or 3d. in the pound, whichever the contractor considers better, says the Association. The schedules issued by the national committee as a guide are to be reviewed every three months.

The national lime and bulk fertilizer spreading committee has recommended the following rates as a guide for spreading under normal conditions.

Per ton. Tons per s. d. acre.

15 0 and

LIME HAULAGE: B.R.S. CRITICIZED WHEN Mr. J. Hatt, Glenfarg, sueVY ccssfully applied to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority for a licence to run a vehicle to carry lime for Messrs. Gray and Harrower, Milnathort, criticism was levelled at British Road Services. It was stated that many B.R.S. drivers did not know where certain farms were and often dumped lime in unsuitable places. Sometimes it was dumped at a road end and entailed more work in taking it into the fields.

Mr. Hatt intended to use an ex-W.D. four-wheel-drive vehicle, so that there would be no difficulty in entering fields.

FINE FILM TO ENCOURAGE EXPORT

IV/ANY of the leading men in the 1V1. motor industry were present at a London preview, last week, of a film, " For Every Vehicle." This was produced for Rubery, Owen and Co., Ltd., Darlaston, Staffs. It is a 35-mm, sound type, with excellent photography and a clear commentary, portraying and describing the great variety of work performed for the motor industry by the Owen organization, which covers a group of some 30 engineering concern.

fl illustrates the manufacture and testing of chassis frames,— some for the largest types of commercial vehicle— wheels, petrol tanks and other pressedsteel parts for the greater proportion of the motor manufacffirers in this country. These parts are also shownbeing assembled • in the respective vehicle works, and the complete vehicles are seen on road-test and in transit to the docks for export.

Many of the companies which use Owen products co-operated in the film which is largely intended to convey a general impression of the British motor industry to potential buyers abroad.

0.P.P.A. TO WAIT AND SEE THE position of the Omnibus Pas sengers' Protection Association, in view of the change of Government, has been outlined in an official statement. As there are still many State-owned bus companies and major legislation affecting transport may have to give precedence to other affairs, local committees have been advised to take no advance action on the resignation of officials or dispersal of members until future policy is decided at a higher level.

It is pointed out, however, that it should be possible for the Minister of Transport to direct the British Transport Commission to abandon area schemes under section 1V of the Trans

port Act IN A LINE OR TWO Headquarters of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers yesterday became 69, Victoria Street, London, S.W.1..

The capital of George Ewer and Co.. Ltd., is to be increased to £300,000 by the creation of 4.2m, shares of is. each,

The A.E.C. Regent chassis ordered by London Transport are of the Mark 111 type—not Mark II, as stated last week.

Tffe head office of Imperial Motorways (Birmingham), Ltd., is now Shrubbery House, 174, Worcester Street.

Bromsgrove.

As from December 1, the head office of the British Aluminium Co.. Ltd., will be at Norfolk House, St. James's Square, London, S.W.1.

An amendment is to be made to Ceylon's Motor Traffic Act so that hauliers may carry their own goods beyond a 60-mile radius.

Sunderland Town Council is appealing against the grant of a licence to the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., to operate a service to Hylton Red House estate.

The annual conference of the Institute of Public Cleansing is to be held concurrently with the International Conference on Public Cleansing in Edinburgh in June. 1953.

Ayr Town Council has agreed to accept £500 a year for a further period of five years from January 1, 1953, from the Western S,M.T. Co., Ltd., which runs local bus services,

Government Pressed • by. S.M.M.T.

CONSULTATIONS between the

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the Government continue with the change of power. The points mainly under discussion concern shipping difficulties, material shortages and growing overseas competition.

An official of the S.M.M.T. told -The Commercial Motor" this week that whilst the shipping position was still involved, it was easier than last winter, when many vessels were taken by the Government for the movement of coal. There was no undue worry about cbmpetition, a normal condition in commerce, but the question of German

competition -was debatable. The Government was still being pressed with regard to material shortages, GREAT AGRICULTURAL SHOW IN LONDON

ON December 3 the Smithfield Show and Agricultural Machinery Exhibition will open at Earls Court, where, apart from cattle, etc., there will be some 2,500 machines and items of equipment. At least 20 foreign manufacturers are included in the list of over 350 exhibitors in the trades sections.

Last Tuesday, Mr. J. Henderson Stewart, M.P., for the .secretary of the Agricultural Engineers' Association and chairman of the British Agri cultural Machinery Manufacturers' Export Association, referred to this side of engineering as the second largest in the world, its output beins exceeded only by the U.S.A.

Only more steel would, however. p,crmit the goods to be delivered and prices kept down. During the first half of 1951 the industry had exceeded the £50m. mark, and had an export of OVeF 53 per cent.

This year. .three new tractors will be on view.

Sir William Rootes, K.B.E.achairman of the British Manufacturers' Section of the Society Of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and of the Dollars Export Council, said how honoured the motor industry was to work in association with the Smithfield Club and .the Agricultural Engineers' Association.

IS A MANAGING DIRECTOR

• A DRIVER? • WHEN the managing director drives VV a C-licence vehicle of his company, is he liable to carry records, or is not to be regarded as .a driver employed by the company and therefore to be excused from carrying them? '

This point was put to OM Hill magistrates, last week, by Mr. Blenner Hassett, who was defending Santo Petrucco, 39, Foden Road, Birmingham, managing director of Marbara and Duras, Ltd., terrazo and mosaic specialist. Petrucco had failea to produce his records when stopped.

The chairman, after the magistrates had deliberated in private, said that there was no proof that Petal= was not the driver of the vehicle and imposed a fine of El.


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