• Vehicles Left Route in Fog : Prosecution Follows
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DECAUSE two heavy lorries, each with a trailer carrying a steel bedplate weighing 42 tons, deviated from
their authorized route during the great fog last November, Pickfords, Ltd., and two drivers were summoned at Bradford City Court on Thursday, January 27.
The prosecution said it was at the bottom of Rodley Hill, near Bradford, that the drivers deviated from the notified route. On behalf of the daence, it was stated that Pickfords, Ltd., had not given permission for the drivers to leave the authorized route, but the men had been virtually forced to do so by the fog. They considered that if the vehicles remained stationary on a narrow road with the fog thickening, they would be a greater danger than if
they moved on to Pickfords' nearest depot, in Bradford. As soon as the drivers arrived there, they told thepolice.
Dismissing the summonses, the Stipendiary Magistrate (Dr. F. J. 0. A32
Coddington) said he was not sure that he would be right in law, but he was sure he would be doing justice. His opinion was that the weather justified the drivers in deviating from the authorized route.
BUSMEN LEAVE T.G.W.U.
SOIVIE bus employees of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., have switched from the Transport and General Workers' Union to the United Road Transport Workers' Association. TO counter the breakaway movement. the T.G.W.U. has held meetings at Hull and in other parts of the E.Y.M.S. area.
CLUB FOR "ELECTRIC" MEN
iNCREASING membership is re.' ported by the drivers' club of the Hindle Smart organization, which is open to drivers of Jen Helecs, Wilson and Sunbeam ' battery-electric vehicles. Details can be obtained from Hindle Smart and Co. Ltd., Merefield Works, Ardwick, Manchester; 12.
Twenty-one respondents will appear in a third appeal by the Hay's Wharf CartageCo., Ltd., concerning its Bristol base. Again, one of the respondents, Messrs. Knee Bros., will make a crossappeal, with Hay's Wharf as respondent.
MORE M.A.A. ELECTIONS rURTHER elections at recent annual meetings of local sections in the Yorkshire Division of the Motor Agents' Association are:—
Leeds: Chairman, Mr. F. W. Webster; vice-chairman, Mr. A. L. Waterfall. Halifax: Chairman, Mr. S. C. C. Clarke; vice-chairman, Mr. G. ' Dews; honorary assistant secretary, Mr. F. Ackroyd. Huddersfield: Chairman. Mr. H. Mitchell; vice-chairman, Mr. S. Thornton; honorary assistant secretary, Mr. T. Ballard. Harrogate: Chairman, Mr. J. Baldwin; vice-chairman, Mr. J. K. Elam; honorary assistant secretary, Mr. C. .V. Wray; The Dales: Chairman, Mr. J. H. Naylor; vicechairman, Mr. R. McCombie Metcalfe; honorary assistant secretary, Mrs, J. Lightfoot.
FORD OIL RECOMMENDATIONS
THE recornmended grades of oil for Fordson vehicles, given in "The Commercial Motor" for January 14, are for the 8 hp. and 10 h.p. models. The correct grade for the gearboxes and rear axles of heavier models is SAE 140 extreme-pressure oilall the year round.