First Freeline Coach Delivered
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'THE first Daimler Freeline coach to I be delivered to an operator received a civic welcome from the mayor of Stourbridge, CUL E. W. L. Tye, last week, when it joined the fleet of Samuel Johnson "Supreme," Ltd.
Built to maximum dimensions, the coach seats 41 persons. The body was constructed by Heaver, Ltd., Duffing ton, Wilts, within a month. Special features are glazed sliding roofs, underseat heaters and windscreen demisters.
HAULIERS NOT CARRIERS: APPEAL TO BE MADE
THE Canadian Federal Board of Transport Commissioners h a s ruled that hauliers are not carriers within the terms of the Transport Act. This means that any case which might be made by the hauliers cannot be given weight by the Transport Commissioners in their final ruling on the present " agreed-charges " case.
The hauliers had asked the Board for the light to be heard as objectors in the case and the railways opposed this request. The immediate question is whether or not an agreed-charge agreement between the railways and Imperial Oil and North Star Oil companies will go into effect. Under this agreement the railways would give the oil companies special low rates.
Following the ruling, Mr. John Magee, executive secretary of the Canadian Automotive Transportation -Association, announced that the organization would appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada as soon as possible. The hauliers sought to make the hearing a test case to determine whether they could appear as objectors. The Board ruled that the question was not whether it had power to permit the hauliers to be heard under its discretionary powers, but whether the hauliers were considered carriers under the Transport Act and, therefore, entitled to appear as objectors.
EARLY-MORNING BUSES: C.M.S. OBJECTS OalECTiONS were lodged by Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., when Messrs. J. Whelan and Sons, Cleator, applied to the Northern Licensing Authority, last week, to provide early-morning buses to bring Roman Catholics to Egremont church.
Mr. J. H. Carruthers, traffic manager of C.M.S., said that his company would have been willing to operate the service if it had been asked. Messrs. Whelan had been providing taxi-cab facilities for the churchgoers for five years.
The Authority felt that in granting the licence there would be no abstraction of traffic from C.M.S., although he believed that the existing operator should normally be given first opportunity of providing such a service.