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r"..00DS carried 'by a person engaged in agriculture in any locality, for or in connection with the business of agriculture carried on by another person in that locality . . . shall not be deemed to be carriage for hire or reward. Road Traffic Act, 1960, Sec. 164 (5) (c). "Our basic difficulty lies in the fact that there has not been, and probably never will be, any general agreement as to the scope of this exemption, the exact meaning of the statutory language or the underlying legislative intent." Whose words are these? Those of the secretary-general of the Road Haulage Association? A lawyer specializing in the law of road transport? An aggrieved haulier, shall we say in the Eastern Counties where the abuse of the provision is still rife? The president of the Transport Tribunal? Give it up? Far better to. It is the comment of an American, a member of the American Trucking Association, criticizing the similar provision in his own country: Sec. 203 (b) (6) of the Motor Carrier Act, 1935.
Service Hold-up
THOSE of you who thought you might soon be treated to a I third "eating station" on MI have got another think coming apparently. Mr. Marples has rejected all the applications which were submitted last month for the exclusive rights to construct and operate a service area at Toddington. The opening date will now be spring, 1963. "Each application revealed some serious defect and none, in the opinion of the Minister's technical advisers, was capable of being made satisfactory without major revision," says the Ministry of Transport.
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Unlucky
MY nomination for the week's unluckiest man, Alan Hess, the Simms public relations manager. Invited to address a conference in Tokyo next November, he finds he is too busy to go, so will have to send his paper to he read. All the work and none of the joy!
The Rochdale Men
VICTORIAN Gothic architecture is not to everyone's taste, but the town hall at Rochdale made an impressive and attractive setting for the excellent luncheon given to members
and friends of the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, Area C, by the Corporation transport committee recently.
Among the speakers was Mr. C. T. Humpidge, nowadays at Sheffield. who, together with several other general managers present, had served at Rochdale in the past. Mr. W. M. Hall, general manager of Liverpool Corporation transport department, referred to the praiseworthy fact that Rochdale buses sad continued to make a surplus.
Two Farewells
THE present general manager at Rochdale, Mr. Ronald Cox, is about to depart for the south, having been apelointed to the corresponding position at Bournemouth. The opportunity was naturally taken to wish him well, and also to mark the retirement of Mr. F. Williamson from the position of chairman )f the North Western Traffic Commissioners.
Mr. Williamson modestly attempted to transfer some of the credit for the complete absence of appeals from municipal operators against any of his decisions on to others. It seems evident,. however, that his courteous but shrewd approach and us reputation for fair judgment have helped immensely.
Wrong
r AM pleased to report that we were wrong, in our leader last week, in referring to a particular transmission failure hat occurred because a shaft specification was weak. This, in !act, was a fault that was put right before production models ippeared in numbers. In any case, the model concerned had a ligher gross vehicle weight than the earlier version, so it was tot fair to describe it as having been in production for 10 years. fruly a case of a manufacturer doing all they could to put hings right. We apologize.