" Investigate Railway Rules "
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IN the light of present-day conditions, I recommend in the strongest terms that the railway authorities look into the question of regulations concerning the transportation of vehicles by rail," said Mr. L A. 1'. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne last week.
"Prospective customers should not have to encounter petty and niggling regulations which prevented the railways offering the sort of service they are entitled to offer," he added.
Mr. Hanlon had recalled a company whose application to operate a car transporter had been granted by Mr. G. W. Duncan, Deputy Authority,"subject to what Mr. Hanlon might have to say" (The Commercial Motor, January. 22).
G. A. Glendinning, Ltd., Shotley Bridge; County Durham, had applied to operate a transporter to carry new vehicles from the manufacturers to the north-east. It had originally been adjourned to enable transporter operators from the Midlands to attend.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Glendinning, told Mr. Hanlon that the road objectors were no longer interested. At the last hearing his clients had reached agreement with the railways, provided that Glendinning undertook to 'carry vehicles only for certain customers.
During the application, a witness had stated that it was inconvenient to -send vehicles by rail because -petrol tanks had to be drained. Mr. Hanlon considered: that the regulations should be brought up to date, and asked Mr. I. Robey, for the railways, for further information.
Mr. ,Rohey said that he understood that vehicles carried by rail were allowed up to two gallons of fuel in their tanks, provided the carburetter was drained. The regulation "sounded, a bit more senilble," said Mr. Hanlon, but bc observed that it probably dated back to the days when a man had to walk in front of a road vehicle with a red flag.
Mr. Robey said that he would pass on Mr. Hanlon's observations to those instructing him.