Mr John Jones: ...by the community. We have to pay about £1,000 a mile for the maintenance of the tram tracks in the London area, but the 'bus company does not pay a single farthing, except for rates on its garages, and not a penny for the use of the roads. 3.0 P.M. In order that we may have the opportunity of something like equal competition this Bill is brought in. I am very much surprised to find that...
Oral Answers to Questions — London Omnibus Garages (Army Occupation).
Major-General John Seely: ...very bad results to a Government Department which is trying to do its best to economise. The transport of the London district is known as the "Kennington Area." In the Kennington Area there are two garages, one known as the Kennington Garage and the other as the Belvedere Road Garage, Kennington. All this is set forth in the document. Turning over the page to see the total cost, you find...
Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: ...ask that because an important question has arisen at several of the ports, namely, that of accommodation for these lorries. For a fleet of lorries working at a port you want a large sheltered garage, and it would be very helpful to have the right hon. Gentleman's opinion as to whether he thinks this very valuable system of relieving the dock congestion will be permanent or not.
...in the limelight of late. Still, this expenditure does seem to require some explanation, seeing it is in that remote part of the world. Then I notice No. 10: "Teheran, conversion of stables into garage, £555." Are there now roads there for motor-cars, or is there merely a road to take our representative from his house at Teheran to Gulchek, his summer quarters? This seems unnecessary...
Mr Richard Morris: ...2s. 1½d. per gallon; that 6½d. per gallon is the cost of refining, and 5d. per gallon is the value of the residuals, leaving nett cost of one gallon at 2s. 3d.; that the cost of distribution and garage profit equals 9½d., bringing the total cost to the public to 3s. 0½d.; and that the maximum sale price recommended by the committee is 2s. 8d. per gallon, showing a loss of 4½d. per...
Mr William Joynson-Hicks: ...car. But that Rolls-Royce car is now to be taxed to the extent of something like £60 a year or more. What does that mean? The owner will naturally say, "I will no longer keep the car in the garage, I have to pay this tax and I may as well have the use of the car." We all know there is a shortage of petrol. Everybody knows it may be necessary even to go back again to rationing it. I would...
Mr Denis Henry: ...of a mob for two days during the week before last. In the two days of the general strike hired motor cars were in some cases stopped by trade union pickets, and drivers persuaded to return to their garages. Trade union permits were given in some such cases to travel. There were no Sinn Fein permits issued. No violence was used and no complaints were made to the police. Police were on duty...
Lieut-Colonel James Craig: I did make certain inquiries before I came down, and I find one car is used by the garage staff in connection with the repair of vehicles and motor lorries in the London district and for visiting contractors. I find that two cars are kept in reserve and of the remaining three closed and three open cars, those are used by the Board of Admiralty, the heads of Departments and other officers...
Mr Noel Billing: ...and joined up in 1914, and later, and the man who stayed back and took advantage of the boom that came to every little business. I could give the Chancellor of the Exchequer a dozen cases of little garages which took on shell making and made a fortune, while other garages in the same town were closed down because the fellows had joined up in 1914. The right hon. Gentleman sees no...
Colonel DAY: 20. asked the Postmaster-General whether, seeing that in a recent case in the County Court, Northallerton, the owner of a garage over which telephone and telegraph wires passed was held liable for the cost of replacement of wires damaged as the result of a fire on his premises, it is the practice of his Department to hold owners of land and/or houses who grant wayleave for wires,...
Mr Hamar Greenwood: ...by four men who fired revolvers at them, wounding both, but not dangerously. A few hours later a number of disguised men wrecked plate-glass windows in seven shops and burned a newspaper shop and a garage. The fire brigade and the military and police turned out, and I regret to say that in some firing that took place three other policemen were wounded, one of them fatally. In the case of...
Lieut-Colonel John Moore-Brabazon: ...largely helped by Civil Servants. This Bill is not so much for them as for the man-in-the-street who is going to be shot at. He has got to understand about all this Bill. I showed this Bill to a garage man, and really he could not understand it. He read Clause 4, which says: Sections seven, twelve and fourteen of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act, 1909, shall cease to have...
Mr Thomas Myers: ...rate, but the men are paid for the two hours they do not work. They are bought off in that direction, and that is prevailing all over the country, and instead of houses being erected, cinemas, garages, factories, and all the rest of it have been put up wholesale in all parts of the country, and every hon. Member who takes a railway journey of any length has only to look out of the carriage...
Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps: .... In London yesterday none of these numbers would have been distinguishable at all, but under this Clause every car on a foggy day in London would be liable to a fine of £50 for going out of its garage.
Mr Albert Atkey: ...cars during the whole year. If he is so fortunate as to require to take delivery of two cars in the same day, he has to pay £20 for the purpose of these plates, which will be hanging up in his garage for the balance of the year unused, and I am sure that user has certainly been paid by the customer to whom he delivers the car. This will place an almost intolerable burden alike upon the...
Mr Jeremiah MacVeagh: ...auxiliary police from Beggar's Bush barracks, and armed with revolvers, raided the Pembroke fire brigade station at Ballsbridge, Dublin, and subsequently commandeered a motor car at a neighbouring garage; whether these policemen were under the influence of drink and threatened the lives of the firemen on duty; whether the lives of the firemen were again threatened when they were...
Sir James Grant: .... They believe that they will cost a great deal more and that these figures are entirely illusory. In these estimates there is no mention of the cost of motor omnibuses and there is no estimate for garages and much other detail which add enormously to the expense of motor omnibuses. A very small estimate would be another £1,000,000 to undertake any sort of motor omnibus service over these...
...that present machines used for civil purposes would be quite unsuitable for war purposes, I suggest it would be quite wrong to entertain the idea that if war broke out we could go to the nearest garage or some motor school and get men who have the necessary experience. I suggest that the air mechanics necessarily require very special training, and it cannot possibly be obtained unless they...
Mr Edmund Royds: (by Private Notice) asked the Chief Secretary whether he can give any information as to the murder of Colonel Warren John Richard Peacocke by Sinn Fein gunmen in his garage at his home in County Cork?
