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Grant for greater efficiency
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• William Swan (Contractors) Ltd., of Leith, was granted a new A licence for 16 vehicles. consolidating its previous A and B licences which it surrendered. Objections listed by British Road Services and British Railways Board were withdrawn, the latter on condition that the new licence excluded coal. This was agreed and the case proceeded as an unopposed application.
For the company, director Thomas Trotter said that it had 16 vehicles on A and B licence with varying conditions but all permitted to operate within 50 miles radius of base. They were fully employed and hired extensively. They were engaged on transport of salt and granite facing materials imported from Leith on time-chartered boats. Failure by the sub-contractors to provide enough vehicles for handling of these cargoes could result in serious delays at the docks.
It was found awkward for the firm to operate its own vehicles efficiently where slight differences of licensing applied and would be much more efficient if operating on one overall common user. Much of the present delays to cargoes could be avoided if all the fleet were on a single licence. No other haulier would be involved in what was entirely an internal rearrangement.
The Scottish LA. Mr. A. B. Birnie, granted the application on condition that the company understood clearly that there were certain goods excluded—coal, livestock and furniture removals. An assurance was given that the company had no intention of entering these trades.