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Claim' Now for Refund of Licence Duty
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COACH and bus operators who are entitled, under the Finance Act, 1959, to a refund of vehicle excise duty can now obtain application forms from local taxation offices. Applications must be submitted in duplicate and should be accompanied by the registration book for each vehicle.
Refunds are payable to holders of licences which were taken out before April 8 last for vehicles seating more than eight persons in addition to the driver. For each complete month since March 31 the amount to be refunded is equal to one-twelfth of the difference between the old annual rate of duty and the new scale.
PLANT HIRE AND ROAD FLEETS MUST COMBINE
THE need to build up a combined
• earth-moving and transport fleet was stressed at Glasgow last Friday when the Scottish Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, heard an application by Ernest McLuckie, a plant hirer, who sought a B licence for four vehicles of 12i tons.
Customers looked for co-ordinated fleets, said Mr. McLuckie, and there were many contracts where the plant hirer or contractor was automatically eliminated if he could not do the whole job. He cited recent instances where tenders failed because contractors did not have fleets of tippers suitable for operation with earthmoving equipment. Mr. McLuckie also said it was extremely difficult to hire tippers at short notice.
Mr. Quin granted the application for various building materials over 10 and 20 miles radii. The application was unopposed.
BASE CHANGE. REFUSED A N application by Albert S. Walker, Persley, Abet-deen, for a switch from special A to public A licence, with a change of base from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, was refused by the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, sMr. Alex Robertson, at Aberdeen last week.
Mr. Robertson said that in an application of this nature it was necessary to prove need for the traffic to be carried out of the area in which the base was situated. Mr. Walker's main customer was not Present to support the application and a prima facie case had not been established.
EX-DRIVER FINED FOR THEFT
A FTER pleading guilty to stealing 15,000 cigarettes from a depot of the Atlas Express Co., Ltd., by whom at that time he was employed, John Bland, aged 26, Bordesley Green, Small Heath, Birmingham, was fined £20 by Birmingham magistrates last week. They were told that he had been dismissed by the company.
Two men who pleaded guilty to receiving 12,000 of the cigarettes were also fined, and all the men were warned by the chairman that they had narrowly missed being sent to prison.