Rail Not Suitable for Urgent Parcels
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AN assertion that the railway service
was not good enough for urgent parcels was made before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority last week when Henry Long (Manningham), Ltd., Bradford, sought permission to use a B-Iicensed vehicle for the carriage of ' small packages of artificial silks and textiles " within 100 miles.
A representative of Courtaulds, Ltd., said that a small consignment sent recently from Coventry to Treforest had not been dispatched 10 days later. It was said that the consignment note had been mislaid, Mr. P. Kenny, for the applicants, said that they had 29 vehicles on A and special A licences and three on contract-A licence to Courtaulds. . Threequarters of the applicants' work was for Courtaulds. There was a frequent demand at short notice for special deliveries of lots of 2-5 cwt. to factories at Grimsby, Middlesbrough, Scarborough, Jarrow, Flint and other places. Long's were prepared to amend the condition sought by inserting "fat' Courtaulds only."
Mr_ T,' B. Atkinson, for the British rransport Commission, said that the amendment would meet the objection of British Road Services, but there was no ;reason why small packages should not be sent by tail.
The application was granted.
AGREEMENT IN DISPUTE
THE National Union of Vehicle Builders are seeking a ruling from the Industrial Disputes Tribunal on the question of whether Coast Metalcraft, Ltd., should observe a national agreement in respect of their employees at High Street, Herne Bay, The agreement is that between the United Kingdom Joint Wages Board-of Employers for the Vehicle Building Industry and the N.U.V.B. and the Amalgamated Society of Woodcutting Machinists, made on September 22, 1955„ and subsequent amendments. The Tribunal will bear the dispute ir London on October 18
AIR RATES MAY FALL
RRATES for goods traffic on the new Southend-Rotterclarn service of Air Charter, Ltd., 15 Great Cumberland Place, London, W.1, have been provisionally fixed at Is. per kg. (2.2 lb.) and 9d. per kg. over 45 kg., but the company are negotiating to reduce them.
The service started on Monday. Fiveton aircraft depart from Southend at 9.15 am. and 4 p.m. B.S.T. and arrive at Rotterdam at 11.30 a.m. and 6.15 p.m. (East European Time) respectively, the journey taking 1 hr. 15 thin. Return flights are at noon and 6.45 p.m. LET., arriving at 12.15 p.m. and 7 p.m. B.S.T.
[British Summer Time ends this week-end.1