Esso/Scots Farmers get 'B' transfer
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Plating misprint —case withdrawn
• Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. and Farmer's. Supply Association of Scotland . Ltd. of Edinburgh are to co-operate on deliveries of petroleum products to the Border area, under an arrangement confirmed in the Edinburgh Court on October 6 when the latter company was granted transfer of its fleet of seven tankers from C to B operation. For the applicants, Mr A. C. W. Forsyth, managing director, said that they had bought petroleum products from Esso for nine years and had
delivered these to their customers members of a farming .co-operative in the main, throughout the East of Scotland. This used five tankers based on Imperial Dock Leith and two based on Galashiels. Discussions had taken place whereby Esso proposed to undertake the direct selling and would need the Farmer's Supply Association tankers for delivery. For this operation a B licence would be required.
Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. confirmed the proposals and gave evidence that its own fleet (2-6,000gal. 1-5,000gal, 3-4,000gal and 3-2,800gal tankers) was fully employed. By this proposal, the Farmer's Supply fleet of seven tankers (2-1,600gal, 4-2,500gal and 1-2,000gal) would be better employed. It would undertake continuing delivery to its own customer members and also service smaller users for whom the larger Esso tankers were less suitable.
Mr H. R. Aylmer, deputy L.A., accepted the proposals and granted the application for a B licence for two tankers of 11; tons based on Galashiels and five tankers of 29 tons based on Leith with a radius of 50 miles from base and with the proviso, "Restricted to petroleum products for Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd."
The only objection to the transfer, by Road Services (Caledonian) Ltd., was withdrawn prior to the hearing, leaving it as an unopposed application. • A misprint in the Freight Transport Association's Yearbook led to the withdrawal of two summonses at Harlow, Essex, magistrates court on Monday.
A Ware haulage firm, R. Dixon Ltd., had been summonsed for using a goods vehicle without there being in force a plating and a goods vehicle test certificate.
The alleged offences arose from section 14 of the Road Safety Act 1967, which prescribes that vehicles registered before January 1,1958, should be submitted for examination before December 1, 1968.
Mr. Michael Burrell, withdrawing the summonses for the Licensing Authority, said the defendants had been misled by a misprint in a trade journal.
"The vehicle in question was in fact registered before January '1, 1958, and in accord
ance with the regulations should have been submitted for examination before December 1, 1968," he said.
In the Yearbook for 1968-69 of the Freight Transport Association Ltd., the prescribed examination date was shown as December 1, 1969, instead of 1968, said Mr. Burrell.
"In view of this undoubted misprint, it would not be proper to proceed," he said, adding that the Association was to draw the attention of all its members to the mistake.