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America Imposes IN the States a serious view Heavy Penalties for I is taken of the transport of Giving Lifts. passengers in a goods vehicle without authorization of the carrier concerned, and fines of 05 or so can be inflicted upon drivers who transgress such regulations. The legislature must be correspondingly unpopular with the hitch-hiker.
Out-of-court DiscussIN a previous note we ions Can Make I referred to the occasional Things Awkward! • • enlivenment of Traffic Court
proceedings by humorous asides. What are more interesting than the proper legal hearings are the " old-boy " discussions that break out when the Licensing Authority retires for an adjournment, and applicants, objectors and their counsel gather together, light cigarettes in lordly defiance of the "No Smoking" notices, and ventilate their opposing views to one another in an atmosphere far removed from that belonging to submissions, evidence of need and the ever-recurrent Enston. Let it be whispered that Press representatives more readily obtain a grasp of the cases by joining these confabulations than they do through a morning spent bravely in endeavouring to detect the logic and facts behind legal discourses. However, we would not A28 advocate that hearings be made in a completely informal manner. We remember one occasion when counsel for the objectors was vigorously airing his views on the case to all present. On one point he monosyllabically and loudly expressed his opinion, using an anatomical term, we believe, to which, to misquote Chesterton, he attached no physiological significance. Simultaneous with his utterance, the learned Licensing Authority entered the court—an instance in which, if the Licensing Authority had mistaken the word as applying to himself, must have strained his impartiality to quite some extent.
Some Furniture IT appears that there was one Exhibits That Have 1 incident arising out of the Gone Astray , , transport control system which
was devised in connection with the British Furniture Trades Exhibition, which was not altogether according to plan. This occurred at the time when the exhibition was being cleared of its exhibits. The complete contents of one stand were collected, as was assumed by those on duty at it, by the proper vehicle and taken away ostensibly for delivery to the premises of the exhibitor. Neither the vehicle nor its contents arrived there and nothing has been heard of them since.
British Railways Issue A USEFUL system of travel Travel Warrants for L7 warrants which will
Business . . ' enable concerns to obtain rail
tickets for business purposes without payment of the fare at the time of booking, has been initiated by the Railway Executive, Each book contains •100 warrants, which may be exchanged at booking offices, of B.R. -town offices, for ordinary single and return tickets; monthly 'returns or, where available, cheap day tickets, and sleeping-car reservations. Deposits are required. and these vary with the number Of employees—up:to 50 it is £50, and for 100 or over, £100. An additional charge is made for each book. to. cover printing.. Accounts for the tickets issued will be rend.ered monthly. The system applies to traders irrespective of whether Or not they consign merchandise traffic by rail. I..R.T. E. Tour and A S has already been Work Welcomed (-1announced, the Institute by Employers , of Road Transport Engineers is making a coach tour of Scotland during the week :commencing May 8, 'with. the .object of visiting road transport establishments, manufacturers and coaChbuilders in this area, and. to inspect other activities of interest to our industry_ Realizing the excellent service which the Institute is giving arid the value of the information which its members are gaining, some employersare willingly, allowing leave to participants in this tour, and in some cases-are meeting the reasonable cost entailed The progress of this technical body is indicated by its steady growth in membership, which has now reached. 1,250 It now has four 'provincial centres and two groups.