DROP IN PRICES OF SURPLUS VEHICLES 'THE average price per
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vehicle sold I at the fourth auction sale of Government surplus vehicles, which concluded at Byram Park, Brotherton, West Yorks, on October 1, was about 25 per cent. lower than the average realized at the third sale in June last.
The highest price fetched by any vehicle to date was £2,284 for a Foden 10-ton oiler. A.E.C. and White oilengiried vehicles have been sold for figures varying from £630 to £1,313.
1 The recent sale realized a total of about £491,250. The four sales already held at Byram Park have brought in £2,048,300, and more than 18,895 vehicles have been sold.
The Ministry of Supply's three-day sale of 988 surplus vehicles, at Lanark, realized £145,000.
SCOPE FOR PERSONAL SERVICE
SERVICES for delivering shoppers' parcels are being licensed in larger numbers. Recently a newcomer was granted B licences by the East Midland Licensing Authority for two vehicles to be used on a local express-delivery service within seven miles of Grimsby railway station.
The operator proposed to cater for the needs of small traders and to set up a stall in the market place, where shoppers could deposit cumbersome parcels for delivery to their homes. The haulier also wished to collect from, and deliver to, bus and railway stations, and to meet the needs of people who did business through newspaper advertisement columns.
THE HAULIER'S FRIEND
ON the advice of the Northern Licensing Authority, a Carlisle haulier recently modified his application for a B licence with a radius of 35 miles. When the Authority pointed out that if the man operated beyond a radius of 25 miles his business would be taken over by the Transport Commission, the operator accepted a limit of 25 miles.
PREVENTING TIMBER ROT
BODYBUILDERS may be interested in the results of more than 20 years' research into the decay of timber, which has been carried out by Mr. K. St. G. Cartwright and Dr. W. P. K. Findlay, of the Forest Products Research Laboratory. The subject is surveyed exhaustively in "Decay of Timber and Its Prevention," which has been published for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research by H.M. Stationery Office at 12s. 6d., or 13s. by post.
STAVELEY TRANSPORT CONTROL THE rates and transport department of I the Staveley Coal and Iron Co. is now fused with the traffic operations department under the latter's manager, Mr, E. L. Adams. Mr. J. Allsop, who relinquished his control of the rates and transport department, is retiring after 35 years' service. A30