AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

Validityof P.S.V.. Permits Extended

28th July 1950, Page 31
28th July 1950
Page 31
Page 31, 28th July 1950 — Validityof P.S.V.. Permits Extended
Close
Noticed an error?
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.

Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THE validity. of certain war-time

emergency permits relating to public service vehicles, road passenger services, and drivers and conductors of public service vehicles, which would otherwise expire on July 31, will be further extended under the Road Vehicles and Drivers Order, 1950. This will come into force on August 1.

The extensions, which do not apply to carriers' defence permits, are automatic.

The Order also revokes as from the end of this month, the emergency powers hitherto granted to Regional Transport Commissioners to requisition horses or vehicles, to issue permits to act as drivers or conductors of public, service vehicles, and to issue permits in lieu of road service licences or carriers' licences.

It further provides that the authority whereby authorized drivers of public service vehicles may also act as conductors without being duly licensed as such will cease to have effect after July 31, 1951, or upon the expiry of the relevant Defence Regulation, if earlier.

TRIBUTE TO LICENSING AUTHORITIES

WHEN the eleven Licensing Authorities assembled in Edinbiirgh recently for one of their quarterly private meetings, they were entertained to dinner by the Lord Provost at the City Chambers.

The Lord Provost, Sir Andrew Murray, remarked that their work was not altogether popular. Man, he said, was always prone to question authority, and was easily made irritable by restrictions It therefore said much for the integrity of the judicial capacity of the Licensing Authorities that so little trouble manifested itself, particularly in the case of Scotland, where the spirit of independence was so strong.

Other speakers were Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, and Sir Alfred Faulkner, Eastern Licensing Authority.

UNIFORM TAX HIGHER THAN PRE-WAR COST TRANSPORT employees' uniform clothing now bears a purchase-tax charge greater than the entire cost of such uniforms before the war. This is one of the items in a formidable list of increased road passenger transport costs, which has been abstracted from the evidence of Hull Transport Department's expenses, submitted to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority in support of the corporation's application to raise fares.

The cost of suits (including purchase tax), compared with 1939 prices, has risen by 300 per cent., of caps by 145 per cent., and of overcoats by 492 per cent. Tax-free utility cloth has not been available, although supplies are nosy easier.

A catalogue of its stock of track-rod ends has been issued by Chorley Precision Engineering, Ltd., Chorley, Lancs.


comments powered by Disqus