"Snapped Fingers" at Agreement ?
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IT was contended before the Western 1 Licensing Authority recently by Mr. J. G. Dixon, for the Railway Executive, that Messrs. R. and W. A. Ferby, Chipping Sodbury, had made an agreement with the Executive not to apply to run week-end leave services from Yatesbury RAE camp to Hull, Newcastle, Exeter, Southampton and Portsmouth. The firm were seeking permission to provide facilities to Leeds, Portsmouth, Newcastle, Exeter, Southampton and Liverpool. " The applicants have snapped their fingers to this agreement," Mr. Dixon said.
Licences for the towns in question, except Leeds, had previously been granted, but had been revoked on appeal, it was stated. Wing Cmdr. L. Hooper, senior administrative officer of the camp, said that after the revocations, airmen came to him with complaints that they could not get home. He asked the firm to re-apply for licences because men were making their own arrangements about going home.
The Authority granted licences for services to Portsmouth and Southampton.
WOULD NOT EMPLOY B.R.S. QT.kTING that it was "a very clear 1-.) case," the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week granted an application by Mr. J. Kilpatrick, Alyth, to carry factory laundry from Dundee to the Burnsfield Model Laundry, Alyth.
The proprietor of the laundry, Mr. M. L. Thomas, was a former haulier and gave evidence in support of Mr. Kilpatrick. Mr. Thomas said that he would not employ British Road Services in any circumstances. Although he had not yet received any sum on account of compensation for acquisition in 1949, the Road Haulage Executive had once given him a 40-hour ultimatum when he did not pay a charge of about £150, he told the Authority.
MORE STEEL FOR SPARES
THE allocation of steel for the production of vehicle spares has been increased for the second quarter of this year. The Minister of Supply gave this information in a wcitten reply to Col. Clarke on Monday.
R.H.E. WOULD BE "WIPED OFF" "IF, to-day, the Ministry of Transport I said the 25-mile radius was washed out, I don't think the Road Haulage Executive would last more than a year. We would wipe them from the face of the earth."
Mr. W. D. Gilmour, chairman of the Scottish Area of the Road Haulage Association, made this statement in Aberdeen, last week.
TRIBUTE TO CATTLE HAULIERS
rI A TRIBUTE to Cumberland and
Westmorland livestock hauliers was paid by Mr. A. Birchwood, northwestern regional manager of the Meat Transport Organization, Ltd., when he spoke at the annual dinnerdance of the western section of the northern area of the Road Haulage Association's livestock functional group.