C-licensees Not Free From Anxiety
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jF it were imagined that because the IL General Election was over the C-licence world was now free of anxiety, such an attitude would be "like the ostrich," said Mr. R. E. G. Brown, secretary of the London and Home Counties Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association, at a meeting of the Eastern Area at Bury St. Edmunds, last week.
The findings of the survey of C-licensed vehicles (The Commercial Motor, last week) would cancel out much criticism by railway people, he said, but it did not mean that a truce would he declared.
Referring to the growing traffic problem, Mr. Brown said that there was a number of forces competing for road space. Those who operated ancillary vehicles must be articulate and vigorous in defence of their needs, if claims for traders' transport were not to be whittled away.
Area talks about the survey will be held at: the Caversham Bridge Hotel, Reading, at I p.m. on November 5; Crown Hotel, Watford, at 7.15 p.m. on November 11; Cambridge Hotel, Portsmouth at 7.15 p.m. on November 9; and the South Western Hotel. Bournemouth, at 7.15 p.m. on November 16.
ULSTER USERS' COMMITTEE
THE formation of a committee to consider complaints by users of Ulster Transport Authority services was announced by Lord Glentoran, Minister of Commerce, in the Northern Ireland House of Commons last week. He said that the body would be similar to the Transport Users' Consultative Committees which existed in England, and would consist of people chosen from trade and other organizations.
The Authority had told him that they welcomed the setting up of the new body, said Lord Glentoran. They hoped that it would contribute to improving relations with the travelling public, local authorities and traders.
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