"CANNOT HAVE CONTRACTS HELD UP."
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An extract from a letter by a concern of quarry owners was successfully offered as evidence by Mr. T. D. Corpe to the Western Licensing Authority, at Bristol, when he applied on behalf of the Bath City Steam Transport Co. for the variation of its A licence to permit the use of two extra vehicles.
The extract read: " We cannot have our contracts held up for want of lorries. The only alternative, we can see, is to expend extra capital to pro vide ourselves with transport." The application was granted.
Scots Haulier Warned.
When Mr. Henry Riches. Northern Scotland Licensing Authority, at Dundee, recently asked a haulage firm why the A licence held by them should not be suspended or revoked, he stated that although he did not propose to take either of these courses he wanted to issue a stern warning. He emphasized that if there was a further conviction, or if it was brought to his notice that the conditions of the licence were being infringed, the only course would be to revoke the licences.
This was a sequel fb the recent conviction, in Dundee Sheriff Court, of Messrs. Alexander Brown, hauliers, of Claypots, Broughty Ferry, and James Allison, manager of their Claypots depot.
London Read-works Programme.
The total, area of carriageway to be resurfaced iu the London traffic area, during the next six months, is about 2400,000 sq. yds., which represents an • increase of about 11 per cent. on the figure for the corresponding period of last year. To minimize the inconveni • ence to traffic, the Minister of Trans port has made an Order fixing the date on which the work necessitating the closing of more than one-third of the carriageway shall be begun.
Drivers using cross-river routes should note that work will be in progress on approaches to the following bridges : —Chelsea Bridge, from April 4; Tower Bridge, from August 3; Blackfriars Bridge, from September 19.
Prohibitive Rail-packing Expense.
" The canned vegetable trade will not stand the cost of the packing required for rail transport," was the evidence of a trader witness called to support an application for the addition of a 64-ton vehicle to the fleet of nine vehicles run, almost daily, by Royle and Sons, Ltd., of Stockport, to London, Birmingham, Newcastle-onTyne and the East Anglian coast. Operations in connection with the armaments speed-up, and the establishment of a cannery at Stockport. were the chief grounds for the extra vehicle.
A director of the canning business informed Sir William Hart, NorthWestern Deputy Licensing Authority, that the fibre-board containers specified for the packing of rail-borne tinned goods added a penny per case to the costs. When sent by road the goods went quickly from door to door with no intermediate handling and the packing was light and flimsy. The output was being trebled.
Decision was reserved.
Morrison Electrics in Eire.
Morrison electric vehicles -for the , Irish Free State market are now being assembled in that country at the works Of Messrs. S. T. Robinson, South King Street, Dublin.
Higher Wages in the North.
The Northern Area Joint Conciliation Board has adopted the advance in wages recommended by the National Board, and the new rates will become operative from the first full-pay period this month.
" CA." Volumes Available.
Our Midland office has available some bound volumes of The Commercial Molor, covering the period from February, 1931, to October, 1935, and these may be obtained, free of charge, by making application to 50, Hertford Street, Coventry.
Internal Waterways Carry More Tonnage.
The total amount of traffic conveyed over the principal internal waterways of Great Britain was as follows :-1935, 13,794,000 tons; 1936, 14,236,000 tons ; 1937, 14,358,000 tons. Will the railways or road-transport operators show most interest in these figures? AUTHORITY PAYS APPLICANT'S 'FARE!
A 43-year-old Wollaston (Northants) haulier walked the 25 miles from his home to Oxford to make an application for a B licence, and arrived just as his case was called. He explained to the East Midland Licensing Authority that he had had ill-health and several operations during the past two years and could not afford the fare. Granting the application, the Authority, Mr. J. H. Stirk, said that the man need not walk back, and paid the return fare himself I Big Fines on Co-op. Society.
The Burnley (Lancs.) Equitable Co-operative and Industrial Society. Ltd., its subsidiary company, the Burnley Reliance Haulage Co., Ltd., and 14 motor drivers employed by the companies were, last week, ordered to pay a total of 456 Is. in fines and costs, in respect of 106 summonses for contravention of the Road Traffic Act.
St. Helens Drivers Gain Awards.
The Mayor of St. Helens recently made " Safety First " awards to drivers in the service of the corporation transport department. Five men, who earned the gold-medal star at the end of 1936, were awarded oak-leaf bars for a further year's driving free from blameworthy accident, whilst five additional employees gained the goldmedal star. These men have driven nearly 300,000 miles in qualifying for the awards.