TRANSFER OF IDENTITY CERTIFICATE: HAULIER FINED.
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Two itaaliers, Messrs. L. F. Harrison and H. F. Harrison, of Runhall, were summoned recently for allowing an identity certificate in respect of a goods vehicleto be used with intent to defraud.
Mr. W. R. Eades. prosecuting, said that when a lorry, owned by the defendants, was stopped on the road by a police officer, it was found that the number plates, Road Fund licence and identity certificate had been transferred from another vehicle without permission.
On behalf of the defendants, it was stated that the three items mentioned applied to a second machine owned by them, which had broken down, and that they thought it was quite in order to transfer the licence certificate and number plates while the second lorry was out of action. Had they realized that permission for the transfer must be sought, the case would not have occurred.
The magistrates dismissed the case against Mr. L. Harrison and lined Mr. E. Harrison El on the case of the identity certificate and £2 and 10s. costs for having no Road Fund licence.
Private Barter Transactions with Germany Forbidden.
A circular Order, prohibiting generally all kinds of Anglo-German barter transactions has recently been received from Berlin. By this, private transactions of this nature, in connection with which German goods are to he exported to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, are, irrespective of the country of origin or manufacture of the goods to be imported, no longer allowed. Those already approved are, however, to he carried out so soon as possible.
Municipal Haulage Prices.
Bexhill Corporation has accepted the tender of Hall and Co. for the supply of vehicles, with drivers, at the following rates per day, per hall-day and per hour respectively :-2-tonner, 135s., 20s., 4s. 6d.; 24-tonner, 35s., 20s., 4s. 6d.; 3-tonner, 37s. 6d., 21s., 5s. ; 4-tonner, .18s. 6d., 21s. 641., 5s. 3d.
Dewsbury Corporation has accepted the tender of Messrs. Brooke Brothers for the supply of a 3-ton tipping lorry at 4s. 6d. per hour, the charge when n20 an extra man is provided being 5s. 6d.
per hour. The corporation has also accepted the tenders of Walter Wightman, Ltd., Mr. J. Crossley and Messrs. Brooke Brothers for the supply of 30-cwt. lorries at as. 2d., 3s. 6d. and 3.s. 7d. per hour respectively, and Mr. R. Beattie for a 1-tormer at 3s. per hour.
Soya-bean Oil as Fuel in Japan.
Trials have recently been carried out in Northern Japan with three oilengined buses of Japanese construction, in order to ascertain their behavi our in extremely cold weather. All the vehicles are reported to have given satisfactory results, the best being afforded by a vehicle built by the Ikegai Engineering Works, the engine of which consumed soya-bean oil.
The Oiler Triumphant in Germany.
The Allgemeine Autornobil Zeitschrift, of Berlin, reports that of 13,925 new goods vehicles registered in Germany during the second half of 1934, 3,827, or nearly 38 per cent., were oilers. In the case of new buses, of which 430 were registered during the period mentioned, the percentage was even higher, 250 machines, or some 58 per cent., being equipped with oil engines.
141eW A.E.C. Folders.
The Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., Southall, Middlesex, has issued a complete set of literature describing the range of, improved lightweight A.E.C. goods vehicles known as Mark II. It is comprehensive in detail and contains information of much value to prospective operators.
Royal Tour of Ford Factory.
Last Tuesday, H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester visited the Ford works at Dagenham and spent several hours in touring them_ He travelled down by speed-boat and saw every class of vehicle, also tractors, in course of manufacture, as well as the only blast furnace in the South of England producing pig iron for cylinder blocks, etc. The engineering shops now cover an area of 28 acres under one roof.
Ainsworth and Jackson, Ltd., has asked us to point out that all communications should be addressed to the company at Braywick Road, Maidenhead. ROAD TRANSPORT TO THE FORE AT BATH AND WEST SHOW.
Road transport and power farming are well represented at this year's Bath and West Show, at Taunton, which concludes on Saturday evening. The attendance during the early part of the week was high.
There is an extensive display of lorries and vans, the makes including Austin, Commer, Reo, Morris-Commercial, Bedford and [Carrier; of the lastnamed, a Bantam n tipper is on view. Ford commercial vehicles are also much to the fore.
Fordson tractors are also to be seen on several stands, and the tractors shown include the Case, Cletrae, Lanz semi-Diesel, International (which is shown with a new mowing attachment) and Allis-Chalmers. A wheeled model oPthe last-named make, known as the WC, with a four-cylindered engine that --will run on paraffin, is being introduced to the public for the first time.
There are several interesting special machines, including a Fowler oil-engined Gyrotiller rotary plough, mounted on a track-laying chassis, this particular appliance being in the hands of a local operator, Mr. W. J. C. King, of Bishop's Lydeard. Another notable outfit is the Cletrac tractor with a power-driven Industrial safety winch, Weight Confession Causes New Application.
A remarkable situation was revealed before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, on Monday, when Grimshaw and Evans, Ltd., a. concern of removal contractors, Leeds, asked for permission to increase the licensed weight of eight vehicles from 24 tons 19 cwt. to 30 tons 4 cwt.
For the applicant it was stated that, last November, at the request of the Revenue authorities, a vehicle, the declared unladen weight of which was close to the next taxation figure, was reweighed. It was found that the declared weight was less than the actual weight. The company then ordered that all the vehicles should 'be reweighed, and the discrepancies were then discovered. The present applica, tion was made in order :to correct the weights and did not affect the carrying capacity of the vehicles.
The Licensing Authority sanctioned the alterations.