C-Licensees Not to Prove Need
Page 33
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
A SUGGESTION by a Member of fl Parliament that ancillary users should prove need before being granted C licences was refuted in the House of Commons last week by the Minister.of Transport.
The Minister denied that the number of C licences was increasing because traders found railway services unsatisfactory and costly. Most of these licences were issued to small traders.
During the first six months of this year, C licences were issued for 44,253 extra vehicles, as compared with 51,572 vehicles in the comparable period of 1948. At June 30 there were 335,846 ancillary users with 634,769 vehicles. Of these vehicles, 348,130 were up to 1 tons unladen.
June's contribution was 7,754 additional vehicles, of which 2,230 were for existing fleets and 5,524 for new operators. The number of new operators during the month was 3,985. June's total included 4,807 vehicles of up to li-ton unladen weight.
Nearly a quarter of the new vehicles (1,990) were for retail delivery andanother 1,773 were for operation wholly within a radius of 25 miles. The increase obviously does not menace the State transport undertaking.
CANADA TO SEE BRITISH PRODUCTION EQUIPMENT
ACOMPREHENSIVE display of British production and research equipment is being arranged by. the Canada Exhibition Committee at the -third Canadian International Trade Fair to be held in June, 1950. Part of the Automotive Building in Toronto has been reserved for this purpose. The Canada Exhibition Committee has been formed by seven British associations interested in tools. Mr. W. J. Morgan, M..B.E., is the organizing secretary, and is housed at the Machine Tool Trades Association offices, Victoria House, Southampton Row, London, W.C.2. The committee has agreed, -subject to space being available, to consider early applications from concerns which are not members of any of the constituent associations, but make products that fall within the scope of the proposed section.
LESS DETAILED CENSUS FOR
i T is announced by the Board of Trade
that information to be supplied for Census of Production figures for 1949 will be in less detail. The main change will be in dispensing with detailed particulars of the sales of goods made, or of materials purchased. The output and materials sections are being simplified as far as possible and, for most trades, only one total value for output and for materials W1l be required. Only one total figure will be needed for work given out, and the sections on payments for services rendered by other undertakings, such as advertising and research, and an analysis of sales, will be omitted.
Although the foregoing will apply to 1949, details similar to those asked for in 1948 will be required in future.