MILK BOARD TO SEEK AGREEMENT WITH B.T.C.
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THE Milk Marketing Board is to seek to reach an understanding with the British Trartsport Commission, when the Road Transport Executive is making its plans for acquiring haulage undertakings, over the granting of permits to milk hauliers to operate outside a 25-mile radius. The Board's report for the year ended March 31 last expresses regret that milk was not included in the exempt traffics specified in the Transport Act.
During the year the M.M.B. tankers and lorries carried 51,000,000 gallons of milk: The transport fleet account shows that salaries, wages and staff pension scheme cost£83525, vehicle running "costs 00,197, licences and insurance of vehicles 19,277, maintenance and depreciation, etc., of premises £4,887, hire of vehicles £62, and other expenses £4,866, making a total of £192,814.
In addition, £3,326,633 was paid out of the milk fund account to " other hauliers," who also received £135,370 out of the creameries account. According to the report, experience in the operation of its own fleet was "of great practical value" to the Board in assessing claims from hauliers for increases in rates.
I. OF T. ELECTS MORE OFFICERS !UR. D. R. LAMB, who, as already IVIreported in "The Commercial Motor," has been elected president of the Institute of Transport for the year beginning on October 1, will be supported by Mr. R. Davidson, Sir Harold Hartley, Mr. V. A. M. Robertson, Mr. A. B. B. Valentine and Mr. I. S. Wills as vice-presidents. Mr. S. Kennedy has been elected honorary treasurer.
The following have been nominated to fill vacancies on the council:—Sir Alan Cobham and Messrs. R. G. Grout, R. H. Hacker, R. G. James, A. G. Marsden, D. Murray, G. F. Sinclair, P. J. R. Tapp, J. V. Wood and E.
Havers. They will replace Messrs.
J. W. S. Braneker, T. F. Cameron, H. T. Duffield, W. S. Graff-Baker, D. H. Flandover, S. G. Hearn, R. J. Hodges, C. Jackson, R. 0. Squarey and A. Watson.
Mr. Lamb will deliver his presidential address on October 18.
GERMAN SALES PLAN
GERMAN concerns have been authorized to act as agents for the sale of American and other foreign vehicles as from September 1 next. Payment for imported vehicles will be made in foreign exchange. Contracts between the agent and the foreign vehicle manufacturer may be negotiated direct, and submitted for approval to the Joint Export-import Agency.
INQUIRY INTO TRAFFIC?
THE Standing Joint Committee of the HE Automobile Club, the Automobile Association, and the Royal Scottish Automobile Club is to press for the early appointment of a Select Committee of both Houses of Parliament to consider post-war traffic problems and requirements.
A national survey of rriack is to be
cart ied out to ascertain the extent of deterioration as a result of the Government's decision to reduce road expenditure. The Ministry of 'Fransport is be urged to expedite the freeing of nearly 100 toll roads and bridt:es.
OBITUARY
WE regret to announce the death, on May 26, of Ni is. LioNbr Loocr, at the age of 65. He was the fourth son of the late Sir Oliver Lodge, and, until recently, managing director of LodgeCottrell, Ltd., and a director of Lodge Plugs. 1.1d,
MEET THE JIMP
1-1. A SMALL scrawny character, known as the "Traffic Jimp." will he the central figure of a new road-safety campaign which is being launched by the _Ministry of Transport. The Jimp. the Ministry explains, " is not a vicious sprite; merely plausible, scatter-brained, not always very scrupulous. He represents the irresponsible element in all our natures,—