Insurance Cover Outside Limit
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WHEN an operator and a driver were prosecuted at Biggleswade last week for transgressing the conditions of a B licence, an assistant manager of the Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., said that his company would have paid indemnification had there been an accident outside the permitted radius.
His company, he said, took a broad view of the conditions imposed by the licence.
The defending solicitor suggested that the charges concerned with the use of an uninsured vehicle should be dismissed in the light of this evidence.
The clerk said that in his view the breach of the licence conditions had disqualified insurance cover, but this was contested by the defence.
After an adjournment, the bench dismissed the insurance charges, but fined the defendants for the licence offences.
FISH TRADE SAVED DURING STRIKE TT is authoritatively stated that the I manner in which road transport handled the fish traffic from Aberdeen during the rail strike made it possible for the fishing industry to survive in a period when major damage eould have been done to the finances of some of the fishing companies.
During the strike, 7,549 tons of white fish and herring were landed at the port. Road transport cleared 4,342 tons and the Charles Alexander organization alone took 842 tons to London. Only 105 tons of white fish went for fish meal, stated the chairman of the Port Regulation of Landings Committee, last week.
Mr. Alexander said that it had been his intention before the strike to reduce charges, but its advent had interfered with his plans. As from June 20 there would be a minimum reduction of 7i per cent., but in some instances the decrease would be greater.
DRIVERS' CAFE PLANS pLANS have been drawn up by Shell
Mex and B.P., Ltd., to build mainroad service stations incorporating cafés for lorry drivers and series of chalets for overnight accommodation of longdistance men. This is mentioned in the company's latest publication, "Service on the Way."
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