HAMPERING DISTRIBUTION BY ROAD IN SCOTLAND
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IN most Scottish areas a new plan is I being brought into operation which will seriously limit the distribution of commodities by commercial vehicles into the Surrounding areas around the big centres. Under this scheme goods for consteription in these districts which, formerly were largely distributed by road, will, we-understand, now be taken so fat as possible by rail and distributed froth the smaller centres by tail services. A suggested area of 5ve In seven miles from the distribution centres is intended, except where the lack of rail facilities. makes this impossible.
In practice, this scheme will greatly limit the operations of commercial
vehicle operators serving rural areas, and it will greatly affect the activities of garage stations and repair shops in these centres.
MUNICIPALITY TQ CQNTROL BLACKPOOL'S AMBULANCES rr HE control of BIackpool's ambul ance services is to be transferred to the corporation transport department. The monicipal transport manager, Mr. NV. Luff, has a proposal for establishing ambulance stations iti various parts of the borough. Drivers in his departs merit already operate the vehicles. '
RAILWAY BID FOR HARM0:10;klY WITH HAULIERS • J. M. INGLIS, Scottish diviIVI sional manager for the L.N.E:R., assured Aberdeen civic leaders recently that the railways are anxious to work harmoniously with road hauliers. He was speaking at a gathering which followed the opening of an exhibition ol photographs 'showing the work of British railways in war-time.
Recalling the competition which the railways had to face from road transport before the war, the Lord Provost remarked: " I think the railway companies are justly entitled to a great share of the traffic of the country. I
• am not decrying road transport. In its place it is very essential, but there is a great deal of traffic that might .be diverted to the railways, if they be able to cope with it."
It was in reply to this assertion that Mr. Inglis raid the railways were trying to get hauliers to come into line with them, so that they could work in harmony and the traffic of the country could go by the most efficient means.
TRADING CLAUSES OMITTED FROM S.J.C. SCHEME
THE Executive Committee of the
• S.J.C. met last week and received the replies from constituent associations on its proposals for setting up a new association for the better organization of .the road-haulage industry.
Whilst regretting the totally erroneous opinions which have been drawn from the inclusion of trading powers in the proposed memorandum and articles of association, which powers the Committee still believes would have been of material benefit to A and B licence holders, nevertheless, for the sake of reaching unanimitY amongst its constituent associations; the Committee has decided to delete those clauses.
The memorandum and articles have , accordingly. been remitted to the subcommittee for redrafting on this basis and with due regard to the other points raised by constituent associations.
The final document, when approVed by the Executive Committee, will be remitted as soon as possible, when it is hoped that, with „those modificatiOns, universal approval will be obtained.. FODENS PAY A HIGHER DIVIDEND IN the year ended May 31, 1941, IFodens, Ltd., made a trading pref.t of £82,414. After providing for income tax and E.P.T. and crediting interest on investments, etc., the net profit amounted to £31;275, which contrasts with £44,770 in the previous year. Adding the amount brought forward, and deducting £3,600, representing a transfer tothe'war risks fund, the credit balance stands at £52,607.
Pt dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. (less fax) will absorb £12,296, and the transfer of.a further,£20,000 to reserve account makes a total reserve of £90,000. After making these deductions there is a balance of £20,311 to be carried forward.' In the previous year the dividend was 7i per cent.
£4 A DAY TO HIRE A REFUSE COLLECTOR' MORT::WICH Rural District Council I has decided to buy a new refusecollecting vehicle at a cost of £950. It 'was stated that it cost £4 a day to hire the vel&le now in use.
COACHN WITHOUT EFFECTIVE FIRE EXTINGUISHER
AT Blackpool, last week, Albert New, the driver of a motor coach, was summoned for having no effective fire 6xtinguisher on his public-service vehicle, and Richard M. Walker, Dea.q's Road, Liverpool, was fined 20s. for permitting the offence. The summons against the driver was dismissed under the Probation Act. New said it was his first day of driving this coach and he took It for granted that every
thing was in order. .
Two extinguishers were found On the vehicle by the police, but both were empty,