"Not the Way to Use Contract-A Licence"
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IT was wrong for a haulage company Ito enter into a contract-A agreement iti order to obtain temporary extra tonnage while awaiting the hearing of an 'A-licence application. • This was stated last week by the North Western Deputy .Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, when Holdsvvorth and Co., Rochdale, sought an additional vehicle on their A licence.
Mr. J. A: Dunkerley,. for the appli-. .cants, said they had placed one vehicle on contract-A licence with a customer, but it was burned out the first day it was operated. Rtinning, toa new project for the customer,. both Ffoldsworth's. and the customer, had encountered difficulties.
Cross-examined by Mr. T. B. —Atkinson, for the British Transport. Commission, Mr. Edwin Ashurst, a partner in the applicant company, admitted that he obtained the contract-A licence after submitting his present application in order to relieve pressure on his two special-A-licence vehicles. He did not wish to continue with the contract-A licence.
Granting the application, Mr. Lindsay said he was perturbed that the applicants thought they could make temporary use of a con tract-A licence to tide them over for a few months.
LEY LANDS FOR CEYLON
PREPARING for the nationalization of road passenger transport on January 1, the Ceylon Transport Board have ordered 55 underfloor-engined Leyland Tiger Cub chassis.
Ten will incorporate the Leyland semi-automatic Pneumo-Cyclic gearbox arid two-pedal control. The chassis will be shipped in completely knocked-down form for erection on the island. NQ contracts for bodies have yet been placed.
COUNCIL TO HIRE RUSES
DOUBLE-DECK buses with drivers and conductors are to be hired from local operators by Reading Corporation to improve their services to the town's football ground when home matches are played.
Most of the hired vehicles will operate from the town ceotre, in conjunction with municipal services, but some will run from corporation termini farther away. The private operators will receive 90 per cent, of revenue.
DUTCH ROAD SCHEMES
THE Dutch Government haye allocated £745.000 for the construction of trunk roads in their 1958 Budget. Of this, £460,000 will be used for roads linked with the European network. The Budget also caters for bridge building (£180,000), trunk road improvements (£350,000) and regional roads (£560,000).
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