Hauliers Fined £20 on Licence Charges
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AFTER admitting 20 cases of carrying
. coal outside the conditions of an A licence, Maurice James and Co., Mile Lane, Coventry, were fined a total of £20, and ordered to pay £2 costs, at Coventry last week. The company asked for 47 similar offences to be taken into consideration.
Mr. M. T. A. Matthews, for the West Midland Licensing Authority, said the company were restricted to carrying coal for one named customer, but to avoid a serious stoppage of production at Bedworth Colliery they helped to move stocks of coal, and sent urgent supplies to a Birmingham hospital.
For the company, Mr. A. W. Moore pleaded that the offences were purely technical ones, committed when the company were trying to help others.
OUTPUT UP: EXPORTS DIP CIGLRES issued by the Board of I Trade shoW an increase in commercial-vehicle output. Last month 23,236 vehicles (22.545 goods and 691 passenger) were produced, compared with 19,086 (18,421 goods and 665 passenger) in April, 1957.
Exports, however, dropped from 10,053 vehicles (9,515 goods and 538 passenger) in April, 1957, to 8,873 (8,440 goods and 433 passenger) last month: The decline did not reverse the upward trend, for exports in the three months from February to April this year totalled 31,213 units, compared with 30,701 a year ago.
N.S.W. REGISTRATIONS
IN the year ended June 30, 1957, 31,557 1 goods vehicles and 84 buses were newly registered in New South Wales, compared with 34,150 and 18 respectively in the previous 12 months. At June 30 last year, 323,340 goods vehicles and trailers were registered in the State, representing 36 per cent. of all vehicles.