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A remarkably spontaneous illustration of goodwill occurred at a sitting held at Doncaster by Mr. Russell Gurney, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority.
Mr. Gurney was announcing that, owing to lack of evidence, he was bound to refuse the application before him (for a B licence) when a haulier from the same village rose and asked whether he might speak on behalf of the applicant. The applicant was Mr, Joseph Turner, of Stannington, near Sheffield, a greengrocer at present holding a C licence, who asked for a B licence to carry general goods within 25 miles of Sheffield.
The competitor who intervened on his behalf was Mr. John Williams, also of Stannington, holder of a B licence for general goods. He said he. was granted a :B licence for a 30-cwt. vehicle, but, owing to his financial circumstances, he had had to renew the B licence for his old 7-cwt. vehicle. The application was dismiSsed, but without prejudice to any future application, in which pniper evidence might be brought.
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A man of 30, with 13 years practical and theoretical experience in the construction, repair and maintenance of motor vehicles, requires a position as maintenance engineer, or other work akin to this, preferably in the Metropolitan area. Letters addressed "Maintenance," care of the Editor, will be forwarded.
Inducting New 1. of T. President.
Sir Alexander Gibb, G.B.E., C.B., F.R.S., will be inducted as president of the Institute of Transport and will deliver his presidential address at the first ordinary meeting of the Institute for the session 1037-38, which will take place at the Institution of Electrical -Engineers on October 11, 1937, commencing at 5.30 p.m.
A Licences Only for Railways?
The railways apparently do not believe that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, Mr. H. F. R. Sturge, appearing in a case before the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, last week, held that the railways were entitled to A licences on the replacement of horses by motors, but that a haulier applicant who wished to abandon his obsolete stock should be satisfied with a B licence.
The applicant's case for an A licence failed, and he was told that, if application were made in a proper form for a different kind of licence, he might succeed.