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Licence Refused
LTHOUGH the War Office had accepted the tender submitted by Mansfield and District Traction Co., Ltd., to run workers' services from Mansfield to Boughton, the East Midland Licensing Authority last week refused to grant appropriate licences. There were two objectors to the application, Messrs. Truman's Services, Shirebrook, and Mr. F. T. Tagg, Suttonin-Ashfield, on the ground that they already provided adequate services over the routes in question. .
For the objectors, Mr. W. R. Hargrave said that Messrs. Truman's had spent £40,000 since 1945, mainly on new vehicles for -these services,
„ Capt. F. J. Cook, R.A.S.C., declared that -there was no complaint about the services operated by the objectors. The decision to ask Mansfield and District to run the services had been made solely on the basis of the tenders.
Mr. J. N. Valiance, for Mansfield and District, said that under the proposed system, in • which the concern would run these workers' services, about £40.000 a year would be saved for the taxpayer over 29 routes to Boughton.
TRANSPORT RESEARCH
A PPLICATIONS are being invited by PA the London School of Economics arid Political Science for the fourth Rees Jeffreys Studentship, tenable from October 1, this year. The studentship,
which is worth at least £200 a year, is to enable a candidate to devote a whole year to full-time research into the economics of transport.
Particulars and application forms may be obtained from the Registrar of the School, Houghton Street, Aldwych, London, W.C.2. The last date for the return of applications is September 1, and the studentship is open to university graduates and persons engaged in the administration or production side of road transport.
FUEL OIL RENAMED
THE fuel previously marketed under
the name Mobilfuel Diesel has now been re-designated Mobil Diesel. This product has been on sale in the United Kingdom since the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., entered the market for petrol and oil fuel on January 1 this year.