G.P.O. ESCAPES AUTHORITY'S CRITICISM.
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" If the General Post Office think that is a proper way of doing their business, it is not for me to criticize them,'' remarked Sir William Hart, North-Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at a case at Liverpool, last week. He was dealing with an application by Mr. J. Walker, of Liverpool, for a variation of his B licence enabling him to carry goods in connection with G.P.O. constructional work on the route to, and terminating at Manches
ter and Buxton. • Sir William Hart was commenting on the fact that a Liverpool haulier was being engaged for wOrk' in the Manchester district. He would have said nothing, he added, if this application had been made by an 'operator in the Manchester district, but was it right that, for public work being carried on at Buxton, he should licence a man in Liverpool to do it, when there were many other operators, presumably, available?
For the applicant, Mr. Allen Walters pointed out that the application had been published, with the conditions asked for, and they had received no objection from any operators in the Manchester district. In evidence, Mr. Walker said the work was of only a temporary nature, and when the contract finished he would apply to the Authority for this condition to be struck out. Decision was reserved.
Karrier's Parcels New Depot.
On Monday last, Karrier's Parcels Delivery, Ltd., the head office of which is at 23, Peters Lane, Liverpool, opened a new depot at 254. Great Howard Street, Liverpool. Consignments can be brought into this depot at any hour of the day or night.
A Travelling Gas Supply.
Our German contemporary, Gas and Wasserfach, reports that a new type of travelling compressed-gas supply station has lately been put in service in Leipzig. It consists of a six-wheeled lorry on which are mounted twelve steel cylinders having a total storage capacity, under a pressure of 350 atmospheres, of 59,300 cubic ft. of gas. The twelve cylinders are arranged in three groups of four, each being provided with suitable connections for the recharging of empty cylinders on lorries and buses.
A Fordson Show Fortnight.
The various developments Made of late in the range of Fordson commercial vehicles, to which reference has recently been made in our columns, lend special interest to an exhibition which the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., is holding from May 2-13, at its works at Dagenham. The entire range of chassis and types of body will be included.
There will be some 50 vehicles and chassis in the display, apart from numerous exhibits intended to draw attention to Ford service facilities, municipal bodywork, as well as A.R.P. vehicles.