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Special C-Licence Tax Condemned
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THE possibility, discussed recently amongst certain Members of Parliament, of levying a ton-mile tax on C-licence vehicles was condemned at a meeting of the Coventry area of the Traders Road TransporLAssociation last week. The• vise-chairman, Mr. Jesse Delicate, said that such a levy would be discriminatory against C-licence operators and might result in goods being priced off C-licence vehicles to the advantage or professional hauliers and the railways: "The Association is prepared to fight to the death," he said. ".We have no hostility tawards any' other form Of transport, but the singling out of one section of the transport .industry for proposals of -a • penal "nature is 'wrong." MORE DOUBLE-DECK COACHES A FURTHER 12 double-deck Gay Hostess. Coaches. will be ordered by W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., a subsidiary of Ribble Motor Services. Ltd., for delivery in 1961. These rear-engined vehicles have Leyland Atlantean chassis, and this latest order will increase the Standerwick 'Gay Hostess fleet to 22'. ..
• JUNE REGISTRATIONS 'UP' REGISTRATIONS of new commercial vehicles in June—at 25.943—were 241' fewer than in the.preceeding month.. This brought the total for the fitst half of this year to 157,863--21122 More than for the first six months' of 1959.
The sale of goods vehicles has steadily risen over the past few year from 11,486 in June, 1957, to 14,326 for the same month in 1958, to 17,734 in June, last, and 20,482 this year.
Details are given in the table.
SPANISH BOARD MEET HERE
THE board of directors of one of the largest commercial vehicle manufacturing concerns in Spain, Empressa Nacional de Autocamiones, S.A., met last week at Leyland Motors, Ltd., because most of the directors were in Britain as Leyland guests. Two Leyland -directors, Sir Henry Spurrier (chairman and managing director) and Mr. D. G. Stokes (sales and service manager), are directors of E.N.A.S.A.