November Exports Up: Registrations Down
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rONTINUING the recovery in export
trade which occurred in the late autumn of last year, overseas deliveries of commercial vehicles in November last totalled 12,307, compared with 10,603 in October. Value of November exports was £8,729,110 as against £7,576,959 in the preceding Month.
Output of vehicles in November totalled 27,096, of which 26,034 were internal combustion engined goods vehicles, 137 battery-electrics and 925 motorbuses and trolicybuses, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders stated on Wednesday.
Official figures of new registrations in November show that 16,936 vehicles came on the roads in that month, compared with 18,047 in October. Details of exports and registrations appear in the accompanying tables.
"TECHNICAL BREACH" COSTS VS IN FINES
FINES' totalling £28 were imposed at Bournemouth, on Tuesday, on Timothy E. Pocknell, Northbourne, Bournemouth, when he admitted 14 charges concerning the hiring of a lorry to a firm of fruiterers. He was accused of using an unauthorized vehicle on the road for carrying goods for trade or business.
Mr. C. F. Hiscock, prosecuting, said the vehicle was hired to R. Payne and Son (Poole), Ltd., and for 14 days Pocknell provided a driver instead of leaving this to the hirer.
Mr. J. W. Miller, defending, said both parties were unaware of the regulations. If Payne's had supplied their own driver no offence would have been committed, It was purely a technical breach, as no revenue had been lost. Payne's used their own C licence on the vehicle.
Pocknell was ordered to pay £10 I0s. costs.
PREMIER TRAVEL APPEAL UPHELD BY MINISTER
A N appeal by Premier Travel, Ltd., Cambridge, against a decision by the Eastern Traffic Commissioners, has been upheld by the Minister of Transport. The Commissioners refused to authorize a picking-up point at Barley when granting a backing to an express licence for a Royston-Clacton-on-Sea service. Premier's appeal against the grant of a Barley-Clacton express licence to Richmond's Coaches, Barley, failed.
OXFORD FELLOWSHIPS IN TRANSPORT THIS YEAR LINAL arrangements for setting up readership and research fellowships at Oxford to cover the economics and organization of transport will probably be completed by February 11. The Institute of Transport reported on Tuesday that their offer to the university had been welcomed.
The British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., have contributed £10,000 towards the scheme, and large donations have also been made by other organizations.