Asphalt Contract to Be Given Up
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W/HEN D. Tarren (Transport), Ltd., /IV Thornaby-on-Tees. applied to the Northern Licensing Authority for permission to run three vehicles with a total unladen weight of about 81 tons, it was stated that if the application were successful, the company would give up acontract with the Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., Ltd.
Objections by British Railways and Biitish Road Services were withdrawn after assurances concerning goods that the additional vehicles would carry were granted.
The Authority sanctioned the application, telling Mr. D. Tarren, managing director of the applicants: " It will enable you to operate the fleet more efficiently and more economically, which is all that we want."
" SMOKE " CHARGE THROWN OUT
WHEN Rouen Quick, Cullornpton, pleaded not guilty before Bodmin and Trigg magistrates last week to a charge of failing to stop the emission of smoke from a vehicle he was driving, the chairman said that a conviction could not be recorded on the wording on the summons.
A police constable said that he drove behind the defendant's lorry and visibility was affected by the emission of black smoke. Quick told the magistrates that engine smoking might develop suddenly when driving up a hill. His employers, British Road Services, did not encourage men to adjust oil engines. He had done all he could, which was to report the fault the following morning.
L.T.E. PAY TALKS ON AUGUST 9 TALKS on the latest pay claim for I London's 58,000 busmen are to be held between the London Transport Executive and the Transport and General Workers' Union on August 9.
On the same day, the difficulties experienced by the unions in establishing national joint machinery to cover clerical and supervisory staff employed by companies in the B.E.T. and Tilling groups are to be discussed with Ministry of Labour officials (The Commercial Motor, July 13).
The unions arc the T.G.W.U., the National and Local Government Officers' Association and the National Union of Railwaymen.
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