Commander Hon. Joseph Kenworthy: ...of this expenditure. There are one or two other items I would like to ask about, and I will stick strictly to details. First of all, with regard to Portsmouth. We have an item for a motor garage. I would remind hon. Members of the statement made by the hon. and gallant Gentleman who introduced this Estimate that every penny was for the fighting efficiency of the Fleet. May I ask why a...
Mr Edward Shortt: ...as information goes at present there is no evidence to show that the collision was due to the failure of the steering gear. The inspecting staff are engaged daily in inspecting public carriages at garages and in the streets with a view to their being kept in an efficient condition. During the year ended 31st December last 18,489 reports of unfitness (some of which were of minor importance)...
...to be very bureaucratic and Prussian action on the part of the powers that be with regard to Hyde Park. When the railway strike took place a big portion of the park was equipped as an immense garage. In the course of that work the grass was destroyed on a plot opposite to Knights-bridge Barracks. When they saw the damage, the Office of Works very rightly surrounded the whole of that track...
...cent. for building and labour, which went on the building of houses, could not fix the price for the other 90 per cent. which was used in ordinary industries for the erection of factories, motor garages, and so forth. Manufacturers, anxious to get rid of Excess Profits Duty, were enlarging factories, warehouses, and workshops, and were putting up the price of building materials and of labour.
Mr John Robertson: ...Glasgow Herald" of a fortnight ago—that he had been there for three years doing nothing but had been drawing full pay, that he had several hundred men, and that there were five motor cars in the garage for his use. I wish the hon. and gallant Member for Central Hull (Lieut. - Commander Kenworthy) were here, and perhaps he would be able to tell us whether five motor cars form a necessary...
Mr Stanley Baldwin: I will have a statement circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT, showing the changes in the price at which motor spirit was supplied by wholesale companies to garages and large consumers since 1912, and also showing the profits of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company as stated in the balance sheets for the years ended March, 1914, and 1920. With reference to the second part of the question, I cannot add...
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?
...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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
