ARE RECORDS NECESSARY FOR VEHICLES ON PRIVATE WORK?
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During the Glasgow Fair Holidays, when all business is at a standstill, two employees of a Glasgow contractor, including the driver, asked him for a small lorry to take their 'camping kit into the country for a holiday. Permission was granted and the men went off with the lorry and kit.
Before leaving Glasgow they made unofficial inquiries from police there as to the need for taking their road record book. They were told that as the vehicle was not to be used for business purposes the record book was not applicable or necessary.
When passing through Dundee they were stopped by two policemen and asked to show their record book, They explained why they had not the book with them, but were warned of a summons for contravention of Article 6 of the Goods Vehicles (Keeping of Records) Regulations, 1935. Later the summons was served on them. The result of this case will be awaited with interest, because many operators believe that records are not required when vehicles are used for private purposes such as this.
A.R.O. Activities.
• Mr. .1, Wyndham Gibbs, at present organizer of. the western area of Associated Road. Operators, has been appointed organizer for the northwestern district area, which includes Manchester and Liverpool.
The proposed time and date for the big meeting of ancillary users in London is 4 p.m., September 23, and the venue suggested is River Plate House, London, E.C.
. The Association will he represented at a meeting of the Nottingham Traffic Club, consisting entirely of ancillary users, to be held in Nottingham on September 26.
Mr. Sewill and railway representatives will attend a meeting of the Penzance Chamber of Commerce on September 17, and a similar meeting at Penryn on September 18. The railway representatives will probably put forward the plea "no flower by request."
North-Western Traffic Court Re-opens.
The sitting, last Monday, of the North-Western Area Traffic Court in Manchester, was the first to be held in the second year of goods-vehicle licensing. The intended list of 50 applications was abridged to 35, but by mid-day, Sir William Hart had reached only the fourth case.
In the opinion of an experienced C.M.U.A. official, the Court is tightening its procedure by insisting on greater proof of the need for heavier tonnage, whether this be in the form of additional vehicles or changes over to larger ones. Various cases were adjourned to allow applicants to adduce tonnage figures and the transport value of these, to show, if possible, that the increased tonnage is due to trade expansion, and not necessarily to traffic secured at lower rates. The Authority did not accept information showing a mere percentage of increase, as such information does not indicate whether the addition had been achieved at corresponding rates.
The practice of dealing with an increased tonnage of from 10 cwt. to even 15 cwt. was formerly dealt with in an administrative way at the office, but this practice is being limited to cases up to 10 cwt, and all must come before the Authority. Owners of licences for 30 cwt. must appear at public inquirieswhen the capacity is to he increased to 2 tons and over.
It is in the preparation of applications that the recently instituted goods-vehicle licensing scheme of the C.M.U.A. in Manchester is regarded as a helpful move. A booklet on this subject is available from Mr. H. H. Lapsley, secretary to •the C.M.U.A. (Manchester Area), 28, Queen Street, Manchester.
L.N.E.R. Objects to 45 per cent. of B Licence Renewals.
The fact that the London and North Eastern Railway Co. has objected to 45 per cent, of the applications for renewal without modification of B licences, granted to road operators in the East Midlands Area last year, was revealed by Mr. J. 14. Stirk, the East Midlands Licensing Authority, at Leicester on Monday last. Mr. Stirk strongly criticized the action of the railway company and said that, in his opinion, it was the clear intent of Parliament that, when applicants had received their licences, they should not be harassed every year by objections from railway companies when they are seeking to renew a licence without modification, The subject arose when the application of a Leicester cabinet' maker, Mr. S. j. Whitehead, for renewal, without modification, of a B licence came before the court. It was pointed out by Mr. Stirk that the applicant had been in business' for 35 years.
The application was granted.
Duplicate Coal-oil Plant at Seaham.
Coal and Allied Industries, Ltd., which has a coal-oil plant at Seaham, has announced its intention of laying down a duplicate plant at Seaharn to increase the output. The present plant, now about to be put into operation, will deal with 500 tons of coal daily and will produce 10,000 gallons of motor spirit, 10,000 gallons of Diesel oil and hundreds of tons of semicoke and valuable residuals every 24 hours. At present 700 men are working on the site.
A Chain Company's Higher Profits.
During the year ended June 30 last, the gross income of the Renold and Coventry Chain Co., Ltd., was £219,458, as compared with £195,868 in the previous year. After providing £95,860 for depreciation and contributing £17,000 to a subsidiary company under a management agreement, the net profit amounted to £106,598, compared with £85,942 in the previous year,
ALBION ANNOUNCES 30-M.P.H. -TONNE R.
Capable of carrying a gross load of five tons, a new chassis is announced by Albion Motors, Ltd., Scotstoun, Glasgow. Complete with body this model weighs under 24 tons, and is, therefore, permitted to travel at .30 m.p.h., and is taxed at £30. It is rated as a 4-i-tonner, which is half-a-' ton more than the capacity of the 30'2, m.p.h. Albion introduced at' the beginning of this year. We hope to publish a full description and test . report in an early is.sue.
Leicester Municipal Officials Visit Commer-Karrier Works.
Leicester Corporation has, for many.. years, employed various types of Karrier municipal appliance, and recently members of the sanitary and baths committee of the municipality paid a visit to the Cornmer-Karrier. factory at Luton. The visitors were conveyed from Leicester in Humber cars and were welcomed at the factory by Mr. T. B. Keep, the company's managing director, who explained that the reorganization of the works, necessitated by the transference from Huddersfield of the Karrier business, was still proceeding.
He referred to . the new chassisassembly and erection department, and to the provision being made to accommodate machinery from the Karrier works at Huddersfield, together with some £70,000 of new machine tools. He also spoke of further extensions which were to be made before the. reorganization was completed, estimats ing their cost at over £120,000, Yorkshire Hauliers and C Licence Holders.
A suggestion that C licence holders should be brought within the scope of the machinery of the National Joint Conciliation Board was contained in a resolution passed at a meeting of road, transport operators, held at Leeds on August 30. The meeting was convened under the auspices of the employers' panel of the Yorkshire Area Joint Conciliation Board. Mr. Charles Holdsworth, of Halifax, acting chairman of the Board, presided.
The meeting passed a resolution approving the Yorkshire agreement on wages and conditions for the interim period, but the general feeling was that in fairness to A and B licence holders the holders of C licences should' be brought under the jurisdiction of the National Board with. regard to wages and conditions of employment. It was contended that their exemption tended to create unfair competition.
The speakers at the meeting included Mr, Charles Holdsworth, who outlined the work of the Yorkshire Area Board and gave reasons why the employers' representatives signed the agreement;Mr. W. Smith, of Leeds, who in an:. address on "Employers' Future. Problems " dealt with licensing, wages: and rates; Mr. Robert Barr, of Leeds;' Mr. Harold Goodwin, of Bradford; and Mr. Samuel Ledgarcl, of Leeds.