53,490 More Clicence Vehicles
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IN the year to June last, 20,607 new J. ancillary users came into existence and 53,490 more C-licence vehicles were introduced. During the year, the number of C-licence holders increased from 392,006 to 412,613 and the number of vehicles from 766,578 to 820,068.
More than half the C-licence vehicles now in use (453,587) do not weigh more than 1 tons unladen.
B.R.S. FUEL ISSUER FINED £50.
rAA FUEL ISSUER employed at the British Road Services depot at Carleton, near Carlisle, was fined £50 by Carlisle county magistrates, last week, when he was found guilty of misappropriating 269 gallons of petrol and 53 gallons of oil fuel, for which he was ordered to pay £52 17s. 10d. in restitution within a month.
The defendant, Robert Harper Platt, a 30, Kingstown. near Carlisle, was stated to have been made a petrol attendant after being taken off driving because of an injury. One day, a senior official gave him 2s. for puttins eight gallons of petrol in his car. After that, Platt was approached on many occasions in a similar manner and even outsiders knew that they could obtain petrol from him, said his solicitor, Mr. L. Lightfoot.
ONLY SUITABLE LORRY
BECAUSE his lorry was the only coal vehicle in the area which could pass through the double doors of the county welfare premises at Kirkby Stephen, to which Westmorland COunty Council wished coal to be conveyed from the local railway station, Mr. Norman Woof, North Road, Kirkby Stephen, was granted a B licence for the purpose by the Northern Licensing Authority at Kendal, last week.
The applicant had asked for a 25-mile radius of operation and explained that he had been asked by people who were moving house to carry their stocks of coal for them. It was stated that this was illegal under the rationing law.
£2 WAGE CLAIM REJECTED rOMMERCIAL-VEHICLE manufac turers have escaped an onerous burden by the refusal of the engineering employers to entertain a claim for an increase of £2 per week in wages.
The Engineering and Allied EmpItiyers' National Federation said last week that members would not be unwilling to reward increased effort by individual workers, but to raise the costs of production was a sure way to depression and unemployment. Productive power, particularly in Germany and Japan, had been revived and these countries had become challengers to Britain in the world markets.
" What we need to safeguard our future is a wholehearted effort in every industry, to produce more at less cost," the Federation said.