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LICENCES AND PERMITS _CONCESSIONS
TO save time, labour and paper in the offices of the Ministry and transport operators, the M.O.W.T. has decided, as last year, to extend for 12 months from the date when it would otherwise have expired, any authority in force on July 31, 1943, to:—act as driver or conductor of a p.s. vehicle; also as driver or.. conductor of a trolleyhus or hackney carriage in the Metropolitan Police District; use a p.s. vehicle; operate a road passenger service; use a goods vehicle under A, E.or C licence.
This will be effected by the Emergency Powers (Defence) Road Vehicles and Drivers Order, 1943, which comes into force to-morrow. The extension will be automatic and-,without fee, but operators must notify the R.T.C. of any change of address or change of vehicle.
" PETROL NOT LSSUED FOR CARRYING GOODS," SAYS CABBY
TWO cases against a Blackpool taxi driver were dismissed at Blackpool Court, last week, when Mr. Cyril Pickard was alleged to" have failed to comply with a request by a hirer and to conduct himself in a proper manner, Mr. R. G. Davey. manager of. Messrs. Marks and Spencer, said that he hired defendant's taxi in connection with the arrival of foodstuffs. Defendant said his job was to await the arrival of trains at the station and, it was alleged, eventually became aggressive.
Mr. Pickard said Mr. Davey gave the impression that he expected him to carry cwt. potatoes. He tokt him his petrol was not issued for carrying goods_ He was secretary of Blackpool 'I am. Ownets Association, and had been driving taxis since 1921 without a complaint.
CHANGES IN HUMBER DIRECTORATE
IT is announced that Lieut.-Colonel U. A. Cole, 0.B.E., has resigned from the Boards of Humber, Ltd., and its subsidiary companies. The Boards have elected Sir William Rootes, K.B.E., the deputy chairman, to be chairman of the companies, and Mr. R. C. Rootes to be deputy chairman.
N.F.U. JOINS B.R.F,
WE are informed by the British Road VV Federation Oaf the National Farmers' Union has been elected to Associate Membership of that body. The chairman of the N.F.U. Transport Committee will be its representative on the Federation's Associates Committee, an alternative being the secretary of the Transport Committee.
GENTLE CHIDING OF BUS PASSENGERS THE Tilling group of bus companies has, with the assistance of Fougasse, arranged a set of five new posters which will be issued from August Bank Holi day onwards. They are a kind of merry ,reprimand to. thoughtless passengers, such as the person with nothing less than a pound note, the man who wants the bus to stop at his garden gate, and the woman who " plants " an infant in a grown-up's place.
SCHEDULE OF DAY RATES IN EASE LANCS
WE learn that as the result of collaboration between A.R.O., the C.M.U.A. and the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners' Association, a schedule of rates for day hire has been drawn up in East Lancashire. When these rates have been approved by the full committee of the associations, all members will be recommended to charge them as from October 1 next. Furthermore, steps will be taken to advise local authorities, railway companies and other interested parties.
The rates are as follow:— E.N.S.A. INVOLVED IN TAXI HIRE CASE
HIRING a York taxicab to go to Leeds and from there to take E.N.S.A. concert parties to other places led to a prosecution at York, when Mr. Robert Flower, taxi proprietor, was fined 139 for allowing petrol to be used on journeys outside the five-mile radius, and ordered to pay £3 2s. costs. The driver was find £9, with £2 2s. costs, for using the petrol. •Mr. Flower was also fined £5 for failing to keep a record of petrol used in a vehicle let out on hire.
For the defence, it was stated that Mr. Flower was told he need not bother about any forms, because E.N.S.A. had permits for petrol from the military authorities. He had made a technical mistake in sending one of his taxis instead of a private-hire car, but had chosen the vehicle which used the least petrol.
Mr. C. F. Sanderson, presiding magistrate, said that the Bench were concerned about the hire of a car in York for work in Leeds. The vehicle ran empty both ways between York and Leeds, and no one could understand why a car had not been hired in Leeds.
Mr. H. G. .Heninghem, defending, said E.N.S.A. headquarters for the area -concerned were in York, and the taxi was hired apparently because the E.N.S.A. van stationed in York had broken down.
Mr. Sanderson said that there had been a great deal of slackness somewhere.
CHANGES OF ADDRESS
r-IF particular interest to Morris
‘../ Commercial owners is the announcement that Stewart and Ardern, Ltd., has transferred its head office, private and commercial-vehicle sales, service and repairs departments to Morris House, Empress Place, Lillie Road, Fulham, London, S.W.&
Another change of address is that of Edwards Bros. (Tippers), Ltd., the war-time address of which is Seven .Stars Garage, 264, Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, W.12. Our readers will know that this company is the maker of the Edbro tipping gear, which is available in a variety of types for all classes of vehicle, whilst the company also undertakes body conversions' and repairs as well as body building.
YORKSHIRE ROAD-TRANSPORT CHIEF'S EARLY DEATH WJE regret to.record the death of Mr. VV Lawson Walton Morton, managing director of Holdsworth and Hanson (Leeds), Ltd., who was formerly in charge of the transport and warehousing organization of the Ministry of Food's North-eastern Division, and was ex-chairman of the Road Panel of the Yorkshire Road and Rail Regional
Committee. He resigned these positions because of the ill-health which led to his death in his 48th year.
Mr. Morton entered the road-transport industry after the 1914-18 war, when he joined the parcels section of United Automobile Services, Ltd. In 1930, he left that company and became traffic manager to Ryburn United Transport, Ltd., Bradford. He held this appointment until 1935, when he became managing director of Holdsworth and Hanson (Leeds), Ltd.
Before his more recent work on roadhaulage rates stabilization, Mr. Morton devoted much time in this direction as hon. secretary of' a Yorkshire hauliers' rates committee, which met regularly in Bradford, but became defunct some years ago. He initiated the establishment of 'the Yorkshire Area of the Notional Conference of Express Carriers, and served on the Conference's national executive.