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ANTI-PILFERAGE ACTION SPEEDILY NEEDED
QUESTIONS of pilferage from vehicles on the road came in for considerable discussion at the annual meeting of the East Lancs, Road Transport Association and C.M.U.A. Blackburn Area (joint organization) which was held last week. Members stated that losses in transit had recently reached excessive figures.
In the course of the annual report, the secretary, Miss P. D. Bridge. F.L.A.A., made special reference to the progress of the Ministry's haulage scheme and the suggested rationalization of retail deliveries.
The following were appointed to vacancies on the committee :—,& and B Licer.ce-bolders,fdessra.
D. Fletcher (Clitheroe). EL Ashworth (Accrington), and Frank Lloyd (Blackburn); CI licence-holders, Messrs J. Ainsworth gee Ashworth (Blackburn). Mr. J_ Ainsworth presided ever the meeting, after which there was a hot-pot supper and snacking concert.
URGENT SPARES DESIRED FOR STUDEBAKER TRACTOR
AMUNICIPAL transport department operating many vehicles for war service urgently requires spares for a 1W7 SC 1590 Studebaker tractor unit. They comprise the gearbox 4th and 5th sliding pinion, and back-axle crown wheel and bevel pinion 09 by 5). Will anyone who can supply these please write to " Spares," care of the Editor?
DISPUTE OVER COAL-HAULAGE PAYMENT
rtA DISPUTE between two haulage contractors, concerning payment for coal transport, which one operator carried out for the other, was the subject of an action at Otley County Court. The plaintiff, George L. Bryant, of Harew-ood, succeeded in his claim
against Joseph H. Brooks, of Richmond Mount, Leeds, for £21 8s. in respect of work done.
For the plaintiff, it was stated that the price agreed upon for the haulage of the coal was 8s. per hour. Defendant said the price was to be 8s. per hour for a 5-ton lorry. He asserted that a 2-ton lorry was sent, and the price should, therefore, have been 4s. per hour. He also disputed the number of hours for which a charge had been made.
Giving judgment for plaintiff for the amount claimed, Judge Frankland ordered it to be paid within 14 days.
MUNICIPAL WORKERS ON HIRED VEHICLES
T" growing practice of municipal employees and others riding on hired vehicles to and from their work, or between jobs, is the subject of a warning by the Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners' Association, which has taken up the question with the Merseyside municipal authorities, The Association points out that members run serious risks should accidents happen to the* workmen-passengers. An effort is being made to regularize the position.
USED AND RETREADED TYRE PRICES CONTROLLED
UNDER the Control of Rubber Tyres (No. 2) Order, 1942, no person may, for the process of retreading any controlled tyre, charge any other price greater than that which he might reasonably have been expected to
obtain on December 10, 1941. (The injunction applies also to the buyer as regards the amount be pays.)—Also he may not sell to any' other person 'any retreaded controlled tyre other than under these conditions.
No one may buy or sell any used controlled tyre at more than two-thirds of the appropriate price for a new tyre of the same size, quality and type; in general, the price now being that fixed by any standard price list generally accepted as applying to sales in the florae market for tyres intended for use on commercial vehicles, no regard being paid to any discount contained in that price list.
The restrictions do not apply to the bona fide purchase or sale of any vehicle including such tyres.
Tyre means both the outer cover and the inner tube, but not a solid tyre, and a used controlled tyre does not include an " unused " retreaded tyre.
FIRE RISKS AND RAW-COTTON TRANSPORT
FTRE risks on raw cotton are the subject of a communication by Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners' Association to its members. It states that the Cotton Controller has agreed that cotton landing at all ports is at the risk of the Controller until it is delivered to either the consumer's premises by haulage vehicles or other form of transit engaged by agents of the Controller; if such haulage be engaged by the consumer the Controller's risk ceases at the time that such goods are handed over to such carrier.