%Tightening Up New Vehicle Acquisition
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UNDER the original Order made by 1....0the Minister of Transport some 18 months ago, it became an offence to acquire an unregistered goods vehicle or bus without a licence. This was to ensure that the few new vehicles available would be used for work of national importance. The new Order, entitled the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acquisition and Disposal of Motor Vehicles Order, 1948, tightens. the control whilst continuing licensing.
Now a manufacturer must not sell an unregisterefl vehicle to a dealer unless e18 the customer of the latter has a licence to acquire it. Any licence will lapse unless the order be placed within one month of the date shown on it. Where a vehicle acquired under licence is taken back by a hire-purchase company, it must not be disposed of except under another licence. The hiring company, in retaking possession of a vehicle, is not deemed to acquire it.
Two other changes are that petroleum tank vehicles are no longer exempt, and fire-brigade vehicles are more clearly defined.
NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM MAJOR H. E. CRAWFURD 'THE President of Associated Road I Operators, Major H. E. Crawfurd, in a New Year message, points out that whilst road transport has come through a difficult year and faces another which is likely to be more so, it " greets the unseen with a cheer." Last year, the industry carried more goods, a greater number of people and Covered a bigger mileaage than ever before, and no war-time industry could have carried out its functions without the backing of the lorries which traverse the roads from Land's End to John. o'Groats, night and day.
It is sometimes said that the industry is unorganized. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The industry is one of the best organized in the country, because it is still in the hands of the men who know the roads and their problems.
Discussions are now taking place between road transport and the railways as to the conditions under which they will be able to compete on fair terms when peace returns, and considerable progress in this direction has already been made.
HONOURS FOR THE INDUSTRY I N the New Year's Honours, Mr. W: E. Rootes receives a well-deserved K.B.E. in recognition of his many services to the war effort, particularly as Chairman of the Supply Council, Ministry of Supply. , Another Ministerial recipient, in this case, becoming a Knight Bachelor, is Mr, Frederic C. Cook, Chief Engineer, Highways, Ministry of War Transport. A similar honour is accorded to Mr. George M. Burt. Chairman, J. MowIem and Co., Ltd., the well-known contractor. Mr. T. E. Peacock, President, National Farmers' Union, receives a C.B.E.
Mr, Robert Stewart, J.P., sub-district manager, Road Transport Organization, Dunoon, and Mr. W. W. Graham, general manager, Hants and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., are awarded the O.B.E.
Mr. Cyril Banks, Chief Emergency Feeding Officer, Ministry of Food, and ex-President of the National Tyre Distributors' Association, receives the M.B.E. He is managing director of Banks Equipment, Ltd., motor factor, of Bradford, and, previously, was engineer to Ryburn United Transport. Ltd.
Other recipients of the M.B.E. are Mr. C. W. Gillmore, sub-district manager at West Ham, Ministry of War Transport Road Organization, and Mr. H. Hinklin, weaving manager of Small and Parkes. Ltd., the concern wellknown for its Don brake material.
ON January 2 we published a list of appointments to the Hauliers' National Traffic Pool which had been received from official sources. In this was given the name of Mr, John Grocock. We are now told by Mr. Henry Grocock. that the former has been dead for some 34 years, and the chairman of the Local Management Committee of the Traffic Pool for Sheffield is Mr. Henry.