Coaching Concern's 14-Year Battle
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ON various occasions we have . reported the results of a number of -tearings and appeals concerning appli:ations by Surrey Motors, Ltd., of Sutton, for licences to enable this cornany to operate coaches between Sutton tnd other local picking-up points, and :21acton-on-Sea.
Success has been achieved as a result 3f the most recent hearings in. the Metropolitan Traffic. Court on February 3 and March 10, and in the Eastern on April 21, thus bringing to a successful :onelusion some 14 years of negeitia
The first application was made in 1934 and refused by the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner. A second was -mule two years later, further evidence 3( increased population and the need E:r transport being submitted, but the Thmmissioner did not think that a new .,:xpress service would be justified, and igain refused. A third application made tt the end of 1937 satisfied him that :itch a service would be advantageous
o local residents, and a licence was ;ranted for a limited period.
The Commissioner for the Eastern rraffie Area, however, refused to back t, and Surrey Motors, Ltd., appealed, whilst the railways and other bodies made cross-appeals against the decision if the Metropolitan Commissioner. The Minister of Transport decided, On the evidence, that granting of the licence was not justified, and he made an Order .hat it should be revoked.
The company made a fourth applies:ion in 1939. which was also hotly conrated, but the war came before the Minister published his decision.
A new application was made in 1949 Ind supported by a number of local .esidents, who attended the Traffic Court o give evidence. The objectors were British Railways, London Transport F.xecutive and the .Eastern National Dmnibus Co., Ltd., but Surrey Motors, Ltd., won its case both .then and at he subsequent hearing in Cambridge, ;when the London licence was granted he necessary backing.
B.T.C. CHAIRMAN AT R.IL A. FUNCTION •
THE principal guest at the annual tuncheon of the Road Haulage .A'sso-. tt.: _be 'held at Grosvenor: Flouse on June 22, will be Sir Cyril FlureOtnb,. G.C.B., K.B.E„ Chairman Of he British Transport Commission.
oast of the R.H.A. will be responded
o -Mr. G: Turner, M.InSt.T:,'
he national chairman. • 'i • FILMING CARBON BLACK
A MARCH OF TIME " film uniC fl recently visited the Dunlop factory it Speke, to record the uSe to which iiarbon black. imported from 'America,
s being put in making tyres. The film via show the carbon black arriving in Iaper bais frorn the docks, being mixed n the':rubber' compound, and tyres )eing made from it. The filtn is one of t series designed to demonstrate to Huropean countries how Marshall Aid is being applied in Britain. LEYLAND LINK IN SPAIN
TO be known as Leyland Motors llberica) S.A., Leyland Motors, Ltd., has formed an associated company in Spain. It is hoped that eventually, the new company will undertake the assembly of Leyland vehicles in that country.
ROAD TRANSPORT OF HARVEST WORKERS
A N Order by the Ministry of Trans.'''. port, published on May 23, authorizes the use of motor goods vehicles to carry agricultirlial workers to and from farms. -It becomes-effective on June 19 and will be in force until November 30.
Existing insurance policies of these vehicles normally cover liability of owner -and driver towards passengers being carried in connection with a contract of employment, if not used for this.purpose.for hire or reward. Where the element of hire or reward enters or the workers are not under contract, liability should be covered_ This will normally be effected by their insurers at 10s. per vehicle for two -months, plus 5s. 'foreach subsequent month. The coheession does 'not' ply' to the transport of hop pickers. Insurance in this case should be dealt with by individual application to insurance offices.
. No. Hope of-Better, Road Maintenance
MO substantial increase in the amount 1 'Nor road maintenance, or the expansion of roads in the near future, wa:s foreseen by Sir Gilmour Jenkins, Permanent Secretary to theMinistry of Transport, when he spoke at the annual luncheon of the Coated Macadam Industries Federation, in London last week. He said that only 7-0-75 per cent. of the maintenance work undertaken in years gone by could be done this year This decrease was unavoidable Mr. H. J. Manzoni, city engineer of Birmingham, and president-elect of the Institution of Municipal Engineers, pointed. out that the country would never return to the days of plentiful labour, and, there mist be.rigid economy in man-power. More machinery must be used in laying roads to reduce the amount of Labour required and produce
a better result. • .
He referred to the, great improvement in the quality and usefulness of coated macadam and to the greater attention which manufacturers were no paying to the preparation of their products
Mr. M. Stewart Mitchell, chairman of the Federation, said that :last year, 21 per cent, more coated .macadam -was
laid than in any previous year. He was among speakers who paid warm tribute to Mr. A. J. Lyddon, formerly chief engineer of the Ministry of Transport and who was now director of the Federation.
OVERHAULING THE TRANSMISSION IVELL illustrated with a number of VI' line drawings and half-tone reproductions, "Automobile Transmission Overhaul" is a recent publication of Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd. The author has divided his work into 12 chapters, and within the limits of 115 pages, has introduced much information that should proveof . value to the practical man. The price of the book is 8s. 6d. net. •