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United Carriers Set for Start
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AT midnight tonight, United Carriers. Ltd., the successors to the Meat Transport Organisation, Ltd., will begin operations. The company's first directors have already been appointed. and the chairman and full complement of 16 directors will be elected at a board meeting next week.
Early on Monday morning, U.C.L.'s fleet of vehicles will be standing ready at various points in Smithfield Market. London, and at the main meat distribution centres in the provinces.
A spokesman of the new company told The Commercial Motor on Tuesday that it was difficult to say what the actual disposition of the fleet would be, but provisional arrangements had been made with customers and it was hoped that a clearer and more settled picture would emerge after the first month's operation.
The first directors are Mr. P. J. R. Tapp, Sir Cyril Birtchnell, Mr. H.
Minter, Mr. W. A. Bridge and Mr. J.
Morritt. Another director, Mr. Arthur Stanley, died early on Tuesday morning. U.C.L.'s spokesman said that the Transport and General Workers' Union had offered to assist them in every way possible in their initial stages.
OBSTRUCTION SUMMONS DISMISSED
AT Burslem last week the Bench dismissed a summons alleging unnecessary obstruction on the part of the driver of a delivery van in one of the main shopping centres of the town.
The summons was defended by a solicitor instructed by the West Midland Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. The magistrates, after hearing that the driver had parked on the " wrong " side of a street where there was unilateral parking, in order to deliver heavy pieces of furniture. announced that they felt in all the circumstances the obstruction—which was not denied—was a necessary one.
Mr. F. D. Fitz-Gerald, T.R.T.A. national secretary, has remarked: "The result is of importance, not only to Burslem traders, but to all those in trade and industry, an essential part of whose job is to deliver or receive
goods, . . . The Burslem magistrates recognized that an obstruction was caused but that it was a necessary one. The decision is a refreshing one,
REAR-ENGINED LEYLAND FOR RIBBLE
ALIGHTWEIGHT double-decker, with rear-mounted blown oil engine, is reported to be on loan to Ribble Motor Services, Ltd. Of Leyland manufacture, with a SaundeisRoe body, the bus has seating capacity for 61 passengers and is of integral construction. Weight is under 7 tons.
A description of a rear-engined bus appeared in the April 16 issue of The Commercial Motor.