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VITAL RULING ON B-LICENCE OBJECTIONS.
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Under the Road and Rail Traffic Act, a Licensing Authority is not directed to consider objections to the variation of a licence to effect merely an addition to the goods authorized to be carried. Objections may be lodged only if an extension of the radius of operation, or an increase in the weight or number of vehicles, be sought.
This decision has been given by the Northern Scotland Licensing Authority on an application by Mr. A. Muir, of Kelty, for the variation of a B licence to enable him to carry coal in addition to agricultural produce. The objections of the London and North Eastern Railway Co. were overruled, R.H.A. and C.M.U.A. Urged to Co-operate with Y.S.C.O.A.,
That the Yorkshire Stage Carriage Operators Association is prepared to light to the last ditch against the report of the National Joint Conciliation Board, was a statement made by Mr. F. G. Bibbings, general secretary of the Association, at a meeting at Halifax on Monday. He was satisfied • that if the Yorkshire sections of the Road Haulage Association and the Commercial Motor Users Association would co-operate with the Y.S.C.O.A. in the matter of wage.s and conditions, they could obtain material reliefin Yorkshire. He claimed that, at present, there was no machinery in existence for enforcing the observance of the national report.
Magistrates to be Reported for Dismissing Proved Case.
A "warning" to the magistrates who dismissed a summons against a hawker charged with not having a C licence was an unusual 'feature in a case at Tenby Court.
A hawker of oil had adapted his car to a commercial vehicle and had not thought that a C licence was necessary. When it was pointed out that the removal of the seat made thefl licence necessary, he restored it.
The magistrates announced that the 'case would be dismissed, and the deputy chief constable said he would have to report them for doingso, when the defendant had pleaded guilty. The chairman said that the magistrates would adjudicate that the case was proved, but would dismiss it without payment of costs.
Speedometer as Silent Witness: Appeal Succeeds.
A decision of the Devizes magistrates was set aside by justices Avory, Ilawke and Lawrence, in the King's Bench Divisional Court, on Tuesday, on the appeal of Mr. A. J. Pearce, under the Road Traffic Act, 1930. The respondent was Mr. W. J. Elms, a lorry driver, who had been charged with exceeding the speed limit while driving a heavy lorry.
It Was explained that the speed limit for the lorry in question was 16 m.p.h., but a policeman said that the speedometer of his motorcycle, when he followed the vehicle for over a mile, registered a speed of 21 m.p.h. The Act provided that the person charged could not be convicted solely on the evidence of one witness giving his opinion as to speed, and the magistrates declined to convict, because, they said, the evidence of the policeman, and that of his speedometer, was the opinion of only one witness, Mr. Justice Avory said the appeal would be allowed and the case remitted to the magistrates. It was unfortunate that the attention of the justices had not been called, before they decided the case, to an authority reported in the Law Books in 1931, which governed this case, Had they. seen that authority, they would have felt hound to convict, because the speedometer provided evidence other than the opinion of the policeman.
Cunard Bodybuilding Expansion.
The Cunard Motor and Carriage Co., Ltd., has removed to a larger factory at Talbot Road, West Haling, London, W.13. The company is concentrating upon commercial-vehicle bodies of all types for mounting on all makes of chassis.
HANDICAPS ON OILERS TO HELP STEAMERS?
Sir John Beynon, of the Coalowners Association, in a speech at the opening of the Welsh Industries Exhibition, at Cardiff, dealt with the position of steam road vehicles. He said that the Coal Utilization Council had done much to induce the Government to put a duty on imported Gil. The steam vehicle was a valuable adjunct of the coal trade.
It was hoped that, as only id, per gallon tax was, at present, paid on oil, as against 8d. per gallon on petrol, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would alter this anomaly in the new Budget. This would help the coal and steam-vehicle trades.
Newspaper Vehicles: A Fine Road Record.
In an application for licences for 44 vehicles to be used for carrying newspapers by Deliveries Ltd., Manchester, it was stated that the concern had run some 40 vehicles 24 hours a day since 1916 and not a fatal accident had ever been recorded. Sir William Hart, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, granted the application for the 44 vehicles.