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4th December 1964, Page 58
4th December 1964
Page 58
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Vast Rebate Fraud Alleged

TEN men and seven companies were charged at Croydon, Surrey, last week with conspiring to cheat and defraud the Crown out of the rebate of duty due to be repaid on diesel fuel......

Carlisle Road Speed-up?

B ECAUSE of the increasing volume of complaints from members of the Road Haulage Association whose vehicles pass through Carlisle, Maj. R. A. B. Smith, Association's consultant......

Bright Forecast For T.h.c.

THE Transport Holding Company is I expected to earn a profit before tax of 117 in. for the year ending December 31, 1964. This forecast was made by the chairman, Sir Philip......

Scope In Rural Areas

T HE Minister of Transport this week promised to consider any specific suggestions about altering the regulations governing public service vehicles so as to allow private......

Private Bill On Transport Convention

F ORIVIER Conservative Cabinet Minister, Sir Keith Joseph, is bringing a Bill into Parliament to give effect to the 1956 Geneva Convention on the contract for the international......

Covent Garden Bill A Private Bill To Provide For The

PA removal of Covent Garden Market from its present site to Nine Elms, Battersea, has been presented to Parliament. In its preamble the Bill states that the Market Authority has......

Tilling Chief To Head London Transport

M R. MAURICE HOLMES, chairman of the Tilling Group of bus companies, will become chairman of the London Transport Board next April. His appointment—announced by the Transport......

No General Rebate

THERE is to be no petrol tax rebate for L p.s.v. as a . whole. A Conservative attempt to extend the concession in this way was defeated in the Commons this week—as were......

No Direction To B.r.

A SUGGESTION that he should give a . 1-1 general direction to the British Railways Board to make more vans available for the transport of agricultural produce, was rejected in......

Waiting For Geddes

I N reply to a recent inquiry by Mr. Peter Walker, M.P., in his capacity as president of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses as to the Government's......

Mr. Speir Honoured I N Sir Alec Douglas Home's List

of honours, presented as outgoing Prime Minister, Mr. Rupert Speir (Hexham) is to receive a knighthood. Mr. Speir has been a prominent campaigner on road transport matters,......