IMPROVING THE DEFENCE SCHEME IN YORKS.
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NITODIFICATION in the road-transal port defence scheme, in the Yorkshire Area, was mentioned by Major F. S. Easrivood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at a Leeds meeting attended by several hundred operators on Monday. The meeting, organized by A.R.O., the C.M.U.A., and the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, was held under the chairmanship of Mr. A. H. Butterwick, of A.R.O. Major Eastwood said the plan for splitting up Leeds, Sheffield and Bradford on a geographical basis, whereby each city would have been divided into four subdistricts for grouping, had been abandoned.
The idea was tried in Sheffield, but operators there said it was not workable, because of the great disparity in the numbers of vehicles as between, say, a residential area and a business area of the city. Therefore, it had been decided that these cities should not be split up at all, for grouping purposes, and an operator could join a group in