PARCEL-CARRIERS' CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS. .
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At a meeting of the executive of the National Conference of Parcels Carriers, held in Birmingham on Friday of last week, Mr. G. W. Q. Smith, F.C.I.S., 17, Water Lane, Great Tower Street, London, E.C.3, was appointed secre
tary. Mr. R. B. Brittain, who has been acting as honorary secretary since the formation of the Conference, has been appointed honorary treasurer.
The Enances of the Conference were discussed, and it was agreed that the subscriptions were inadequate to enable the Conference to develop satisfactorily. It was agreed, therefore, that while the Ss. per vehicle basis should be maintained, the maximum payable should be increased to £2 10s. per annum.
British Chassis for Polish Show.
One of the few British commercial chassis ever to be exhibited in a Baltic country will be the single-deck bus chassis recently shipped by Leyland Motors, Ltd., for exhibition at the show at Poznan, a small university town in Poland. The model chosen is the Tiger with an extended wheelbase.
Government Orders in March.
Only a relatively small number of orders for commercial vehicles was given out by Government departments during Match last. The Admiralty placed a contract for a fire-engine with Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., others for lorries with Albion Motors, Ltd. and Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., and one for an electric tractor with Wingrove and Rogers, Ltd. The War Office ordered a number of lorries from Guy Motors, Ltd.; the Air Ministry gave orders for low-loading vehicles to Dennis Bros., Ltd., and R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd., and one for two-wheeled trailers to the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd.
The orders given out by the Crown Agents for the Colonies included one for a motor ambulance from the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., another for a fire-engine from Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., and a third for motor rollers from Aveling-Barford, Ltd.
B to A Not as Easy as A B C.
A point of law was raised at a sitting of the Northern Scotland Licensing Authority, in Dundee, last week. An application was put forward by Wordie and Co., Ltd., Kirriemuir, to have a vehicle under a limited Blicence included under an A licence, or, alternatively, to secure a variation in the conditions of the B licence.
Mr. W. Ramsay Gemmill, for the applicant, supported the application on a point which had not yet been decided by the Appeal Tribunal—how far it was competent to grant a B licence to an applicant who had never had any business other than that of a public carrier.
Mr. Riches, the Licensing Authority, said that Mr. Gemmill had, in effect, stated that his client was a common carrier of goods and that, as a public carrier, it was, in law, entitled to A
licences as it carried no goods of its own. Mr. Riches further said he did not think a case had been established, or a need proved, and it would not be in the public interest to accede to the variation. He regranted the B licence without modification.
Little Overloading in Manchester.
" Out of the hundreds of vehicles examined, in only 18 cases was there found to be such overloading as called for legal proceedings," states Mr. G. B. Cole, chief inspector of weights and measures, to Manchester Corporation, in his annual report just issued.