10,136 More C Vehicles in Three Months
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BETWEEN June and September this year 10,136 more C-licence vehicles appeared, bringing the total in September to 981,201, The number rose by 52,209 during the year.
The number of C-licence holders increased by 3,838 during the quarter and by 19.703 during the year.
The following table analyses the changes ia C-licence fleets and operators in the year to September last:— OPERATOR'S AND PASSENGERS' COUNTER-CLAIMS SUCCEED
I-3. A CLAIM for £250 by Imperial Motorways, Ltd., Bromsgrove, for the balance of an account for taking a party by coach to Italy, was allowed by Judge Norman A. Carr at Stourbridge County Court, last week. A counterclaim for £281, plus costs, by the. 11 passengers for their return fare home by air and additional expenses, was also allowed,
The judge said that members of the party were so unnerved and frightened by their experience in an Imperial Motorways' coach when it was descending the St. Gotthard Pass in Switzerland that they abandoned the coach (The Commercial Motor, November 2).
Although he considered that the coach was roadworthy, Judge Carr thought the driver, Mr. E. F. Brown, of Charford, Bromsgrove, was "not experienced enough in Continental conditions to negotiate such a notorious pass." lie thought the brakes had failed because they became overheated as the driver had used them too much. He had not relied enough on his gears.
INSURANCE FOR ENGINEERS
ANEW form of group-insurance scheme has been introduced by the Engineers' Guild for its members. Its chief feature is that provision is made for changes in employment. The scheme is open to all members of the Institutions of Civil. Mechanical and Electrical Engineers aged between 21 and 60 who are resident in approved countries. Members of the Guild will enjoy a special rebate.
Another scheme is to be introduced more suitable for older men liable to surtax.