Is B Licence Needed for this Work?

26th September 1958, Page 98

26th September 1958

Page 98

Page 98, 26th September 1958 — Is B Licence Needed for this Work?

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rAN a company which warehouses and

packs goods for other concerns be permitted to carry these goods on C licence? Thisquestion cropped up at Manchester, last week, when the Rosseridale Storage and Motor Co., Ltd., applied for two extra B-licence vehicles.

. On their behalf, Mr. P. Kershaw asked for an adjournment, because he was not satisfied that a B licence was necessary for this work. Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy. Licensing Authority, granted this after he had been told by Mr. J. Booth, for five private objectors, that allegations of irregular operation would be put forward.

The applicants were seeking conditions of: "Goods which have been stored or are to be stored in the licensee's warehouses, within 25 miles of base." Mr. Kershaw wanted to study whether the goods could be described as having been subject to processing or treatment.

Note: Under the 1933 Road and Rail Traffic Act, a person who has processed or treated goods, or intends to do so, may carry the goods without his transport being deemed as "for hire or reward." However, the High Court has held that packing alone cannot be deemed processing or treating the goods.

HALIFAX BUS SURPLUS UP TO £45,671

HAL1FAX buses achieved a £45,671 1 1 surplus in the last financial year, compared with £35,237 the previous year, says a transport committee report. This result came about despite the fact that a general rise in fares brought no increased revenue on services running outside the borough and the increase on town routes was £15,000 below expectations.

Mr. R. Le Fevre, general manager, attributes the success to a reduction in services and careful pruning of expenditure. He adds that, with the continuing fall in passengers, further econOmies will be sought because fare increases are not a complete solution to the problem.

The undertaking's net outstanding debt is now £73,996, a decrease of £26,162. Buses to be delivered within the next two years will cost £125,000.

DRIVER WINS £50 FOR INCREASING PAYLOAD THE first mtjor efficiency award made by Raleigh Industries, Ltd., was presented to one of their drivers, last week, after he had suggested a way of increasing payloads by 30 cwt.

Raleigh's vehicles previously carried 130 bicycles from Nottingham to depots in London, Leeds, Manchester and Glasgow, and spares went in other vans. Mr. Geoffrey Harvey suggested that, by putting in a false floor and raising the bicycles to the roof, 30 cwt. of spares could be carried with each consignment.

He has been awarded £50, and the idea is being extended to the whole fleet, so that most of the journeys by spares vehicles will be unnecesary.