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28th September 1956
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QIX appeals against decisions of the 0.-"South Eastern, West Midland and Yorkshire Licensing Authorities have been dismissed with .costs by the Minister of Transport.

Lewis A. Lercy, Ltd., appealed against the South Eastern Authority's refusal to grant a licence for excursions and tours from Tunbridge Wells. Kendrick Transport, Ltd., Joyce Allen and the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., appealed against the grant by the West Midland Authority of a licence to Bertie Devenport for excursions and tours from Netherton.

The Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd., and the British Transport Commission appealed against the Yorkshire Authority's grant of a licence to T. and D. E. Truman and W. Silver for an express service from Langwith to Black pool.

All the appeal hearings took place at the end of July and the decisions have been given Much more quickly than in the past.

SOUTH AFRICA'S VEHICLE NEEDS

AN estimate that South Africa will require between 13,000 and 14,000 commercial vehicles a year until, by. 1960, there are 210,000 in the country, is put forward in the September issue of Motor Business, published by The Economist Intelligence Unit, 22 Ryder Street, London, S.W.1.

Last year some 4,000 commercial vehicles were exported from South Africa, mostly to Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

A warning is given that it should not be assumed that this country will continue to enjoy the present degree of tarifi preference in South Africa. There is a growing body of °Pinion, it is reported, that the scales should not be weighted so heavily in favour of Britain.

MOTOR INDUSTRY INQUIRY?

rOMMERCIAL-VEIACLE manufac turers are included with the rest of the motor industry in a proposal by the Federation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions that a fact-finding inquiry into the industry should be set up. Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, has agreed thatthis request should be discussed 'by the National Advisory Council on October 31.

OBITUARY

WE regret to record the death of MR. JOHN STEWART and MR. JAMES WILLIAM ELEMENT.

Mr. Stewart, who was 56, was a Hamilton haulage contractor who began business in 1930.

Mr. Element was head of Messrs. T. and S. Element, Birmingham, which he founded 48 years ago. He was 76.


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