AUTHORITY OVERLOOKS TEST CASES
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THAT the •Deputy Licensing Authority had not referred to two test-case decisions of the ' Appeal Tribunal, was stated by the chairman of the Tribunal, Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson, in reversing a decision at York. . The case was one in which a 1914-18 ex-Serviceman, Mr. W. H. Morfoot, appealed against the refusal of the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority to grant an A licence for one vehicle.
Respondents were the Easingwold Light Railway Co., Mr, C. Kay and Messrs. Stephenson Bros., against whom costs were awarded. Mr. A. E. Ellis, for the respondents, said that to grant The appeal would be pointing a " big gun" at the living of the respondents.
The appellant had been out of business for eight years, he said, and could hardly, have any of the original business left. He was operating under two Contract A licences at present.
, Mr. Gleeson Robinson made some observations on contract licences and warned ex-Servicemen against rushing into accepting :them and then finding the results disastrous. AUTOMOBILE DIVISION • LECTURE MEETINGS
THE paper to be read on November 4 at the meeting of the Automobile Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers will be entitled Cylinder Head Design,". by Mr. J. Swaine, A.M.I.Mech.E., of the Rover Co., Ltd. M. Julien was to have read a paper, but cannot come to this country then. At Leeds, on November 5, Messrs. Markland and Tattersall will read their paper on oil engines.
SCOTLAND'S NO. 1 STUDENTS
PRIZES have been awarded by the Scottish Road Passenger. Transport Association to Mr.. J. B. Macdonald, of S.P.D., and Mr. J. B. McGuigan, of Glasgow Transport Department, for their successful performances in Royal Society of Arts examinations in road transport subjects.
Mr. Macdonald obtained the highest aggregate marks among students in Scotland taking the first-year course, and Mr. McGuigan achieved a similar, distinction in the second-year course.
T.R.T.A. TIES UP LOOSE ENDS
FIRST conference of area organizers of the Traders' Road Transport Association was held recently in London. Col. A. Jerrett, M.Inst.T.. president and chairman of the Association, presided. The meeting, which lasted nearly four hours, was planned to allow organizers to discuss subjects of mutual interest.
ANOTHER BRUSH SHOW
HAVING been appointed sole distributor for Brush electric vehicles for East Sussex, Langney Motors, Ltd., is to hold an exhibition of the full rang'e and of sectional models at 31, Cornfield Road, Eastbourne, from November 3-8.
NORTH DEVON ROAD SURVEY
PROPOSALS for long-term improvements of trunk roads in North Devon include by-passes at Bampton, Barnstaple, Biekington, Bideford, Fremington and South Molton,