Birmingham Group Opens in London
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BACKLOADING for independent hauliers running long-distance services under permits is becoming increasingly difficult as the result of the Road Haulage Executive's policy of refusing co-operation. To tackle this problem, Birmingham Road Haulage, Ltd., a hauliers' group, recently opened a metropolitan office at 32-36, High Road, Wembley, Middlesex. This step had been encouraged by trading interests in both centres.
Commenting on the new scheme, Mr. Harry Bedworth, chairman of the concern, said that all free hauliers would be encouraged to make use of the office. He pointed out that the R.H.E.'s action in blocking " free " backloading wher ever possible wasted both the hauliers' time and the country's dollar resources.
The new depot was a practical measure to improve the efficiency of transport organization. It had already shown its value and represented a healthy business development.
B.A.C.A. AIMS AT 2,000 MEMBERSHIP
TE British Agricultural Contractors' Aissociation aims to have 2,000 members by the end of this year. In its first progress report, individual members are asked to assist in increasing enrolment.
The Association is urging the Board of Trade and the Ministry of Agriculture to allow spares for American and Canadian machinery to be imported in sufficient quantities, and to place agriculturists on •the same footing as industrialists.
PETROL TRANSPORT RULE CHANGED
D EGULATION 3 of the PetroleumFS. Spirit (Conveyance) Regulations, 1939, has been amended. It now provides that the dipping pipe of a tank wagon or tank trailer shall at all times be kept securely closed except (a) when the tank is being filled or emptied, or (b) "for the purpose of testing, on premises licensed under the Petroleum (Consolidation) Act, 1928, the petroleum-spirit contained in the tank by a person specially authorized in that behalf by the owner of the vehicle."