Customers' Aid is Undercutting
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FOR a greengrocer to offer to remove furniture cheaply on the understanding that customers assisted with the work was a form of undercutting, Mr. J. H. E. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, said at Leeds last week. He refused an application by Mr. L. Jones, of Castleford, to add a 2*-ton furniture van to his B licence. Mr. Jones said that he had a small van on B licence for delivering school meals. Nearly 140 of his customers had signed a petition asking for better removal facilities, and last October he had bought the pantechnicon. For Pickfords it was stated that they had four 1,200-cu.-ft. pantechnicons at Wakefield, and during the three months ended February there were only 1 removals in Castleford. Pickfords were able to cater for small removals and were under-employed. Another objector also had vehicles available.
Mr. Randolph described the applica
tion as ambitious. Mr. Jones had acquired a vehicle and then canvassed the demand. The difficulties of witnesses seemed to be of their own making through not giving sufficient notice.
TYRE OUTPUT QUADRUPLED
FOUR times as many tyres were now produced per hour as was the case 30 years ago,. Mr. G. E. Beharrell, managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., told the International Synthetic Rubber Symposium last week. The modern tyre, he claimed, wore for 40 times longer than the 1918 product. Mr. Beharrell prophesied that more than 4m. tons of rubber per annum would be consumed in 10 years' time, almost lm. tons more than two years ago. Modern science and technology would not only be applied to improve and develop synthetic rubber, he said. but to improve the uniformity of quality of natural rubber.