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Many Thornycroft Nippy vehicles are operated by th: British Railway Executioe (Western Region) and further
• substantial contracts ate being completed: This tractor-trader outfit, with Scanonell 6-8-ton automatic coupling gear, was photographed while handling mixed traffic at Slough station:
R.H.A. REOMMENDS INCREASE IN RATES
HAULIERS are recommended by the 'Road Haulage Association to increase their rates, as from February 2, by not less than 5 per cent. or more than 10 per cent. The new Road Haulage Wages Order, R.H.(24), comes into force on that date, and the additional cost which it will occasion is partly responsible for the increase in rates recommended by the Association.
Costs in other directions have also risen. The prices of petrol, lubricating oil and spare parts have increased. In addition, the earning capacity of hauliers' vehicles has been much reduced by delays in turn-round caused by the introduction of the five-day week in industry, the staggering of hours. power cuts and for other reasons.
RAILWAY EXECUTIVE CONTINUES THE FIGHT.
THE Railway Executive will appear as respondent in three appeals to be heard by the Appeal Tribunal at Halifax House, Strand, London, W.C.2, on February 4 and 5.
In the first case, Messrs. J. E. Plater will appeal against a decision of the Northern Licensing Authority, and in the second, Mr. A. E. Blackmore wjll contest a decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority.
On February 5, the appeal of Messrs. J. Goodacre and Sons against a decision of the East Midland Deputy Licensing Authority will be taken.
BIGGER EXPORT TIGER: INDIA ORDERS COMETS
A NEW Leyland Tiger long-wheelbase bus chassis is to be marketed
exclusively for export. It is designed to meet the demand in Australia and South America for a bus 33 ft. long, with 44 seats and a ffiaximum capacity of 75 passengers. It has a wheelbase of 21 ft. 6 ins., and is available with left-hand or righthand drive. The frame members are of thicker section than those normally employed, and the transmission system incorporates a three-piece propeller shaft. Single 11.00-in. by 20-in. tyres are fitted at the front, with twins at the rear. The turning circle is about 70 ft.
Export orders for the new Comet oilengined vehicles are now arriving. The A28" Nizam State Railways have ordered 85 of these vehicles, all of 14-ft, 2-in. wheelbase. They will have right-hand drive. Bombiy Municipality has also ordered 17 Comets, eight of which will be fitted, with moving-floor refuse-collection bodies. Two of the vehicles will be equipped as gully and cesspoolemptiers.
ROAD TRANSPORT EXECUTIVES NAMED Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell has been appointed chairman of the Road Transport Executive. Full-time members will be Mr. C. Barrington, Mr. G. Cardwell, Mr. Harold E. Clay, and Mr. Archibald Henderson.
Mr. W. Beckett, Mr. Henry Duffield and Mr. Percy J. R. Tapp are put-time members.
BAN ON NON-PRIVATE COACH TRIPS
SOME days ago Major F.. S. Eastwood, North Eastern Licensing Authority for Public Service Vehicles, announced in Leeds that he would not grant licences for Cup-tie coach trips organized by commercial undertakings.
The whole question of coach operation in the light of current fuel shortage is now under review, said a Ministry of Transport spokesman to "The Commercial Motor." HAULIERS: BEWARE OF LOSING RIGHTS
A WARNING regarding original per
mits and compensation for a refusal or revocation is issued by the Road Haulage Association. It points out that sections 53-55 of the Transport Act give certain important rights to persons who were, on November 28, 1946, carrying on a business for hire or reward. Section 53 entitles such persons to original or substitute permits, whilst sections 54 and 55 entitle them to compensation in the, event of such permits being refused or revoked.
The important point to note is that these rights are personal and not transferable, except that under section 53(7) original or substitute permits may be assigned to a purchaser who also holds such a permit.
These important rights will therefore be lost where ar umtertaking is sold in circumstances other than those covered by section 53(7). It is particularly important to keep this rule in mind in cases where the "conversion" of a haulage business into a limited company is contemplated BRITISH VEHICLES WILL APPEAR AT BRUSSELS SHOW
SEVERAL British makes will appear at the Salon de Bruxelles, which is being held for the first time since the war, from February 14-25. Commercial vehicles have always been a particularly strong feature of the Belgian show and on this occasion the commercial section will be the largest in its history. Fortytwo chassis builders and 20 commercial coachbuilders are to be represented.
British exhibits will include Austin, Bradford, Commer, Leyland, MorrisCommercial, Thornycroft, Vulcan and Seddon. Brossel, F.N. and Miesse will represent the Belgian national industry.
Other exhibitors in the commercialvehicle section—American, French, Italian, Swedish and Czechoslovak— will include Berliet, Bernard, CitroEn, Cummins, Chausson-Chenard, Dodge, De Soto, Diamond, Delahaye, Fargo, Fiat, Flexible, Federal, Latil, Liberty, Macchi, M.A.N., Mack, Nash, Peugeot, Panhard Levassor, Renault, Reo, Studebaker, Skoda, Saurer, Unic, Volvo. Willys-Overland and White.