Expanding Warehouse Activities Win Artic Vans
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IF London hauliers had known that I Heinz and Libby's traffic ex-London was involved in the application. it would have attracted most violent objections from the Metropolitan area. said Mr. C. Kaile, at Ipswich last week. He represented British Road Services and two private objectors when H. G. Taylor Haulage Ltd.. Mendlesham, applied to the Eastern Licensing' Authority. Mr. W. P. S. Ormond. for a new A licence for six artics of-31 tons unladen weight. Mr. S. J. Green appeared for the applicants.
Mr. A. E. Worlding. a director of Taylor Haulage: said the warehousing activities of Anglia Warehousing Co. Ltd. were kept separate from the haulage work done by Taylor, and combined rates for haulage and warehousing were never quoted. Traffic from Spillers, consisting of pre-packed flour and animal pet foods. had grown rapidly since November. 1964 and was now worth £1.800 per month. The goods were brought to the Mendlesham store of Anglia Warehousing from various Spillers factories and distributed to shops and stores in East Anglia by Taylor. Salesmen were more successful when goods were available in the area. he said. "They are there to sell the stuff and it is sold."
Continuing. Mr. Worlding said another new customer was the very large Inveresk Paper Group, whose business in paper towels and handkerchiefs was expanding fast. Lines Bros.. with 21 subsidiary companies, who "virtually owned the toy industry" were now sending 10 or more pantechnicon loads to Mendlesham weekly, and the distribution of the bicycles, prams, dolls houses and so on occupied the equivalent of three or more vehicles weekly.
Sub-contracting was now £53.000 p.a., said Mr. Wadding, but it was impossible to hire sufficient vans with trained drivers for shop distribution. In Ipswich different shops closed on different days, and in the area it had been very difficult to find out which premises were open. Tesco shops. for instance, demanded that goods be delivered at 9 a.m. Later deliveries were refused. Often. Taylor Haulage were asked to deliver at the same time to three shops in the same town and on the same day.
When Mr. Green asked Mr. Worlding if he had "made a rod for his own back by giving his customers such excellent service". Mr. Kaile objected to the leading question, and it was rephrased. Mr. Worlding said his customers expected next-day delivery: integrated deliveries saved lots of mileage, he said. "We get the work because of our storage space. Big manufacturers arc all following the trend towards warehouse distribution. They come to us--we don't go to them."
Mr. Kaile. cross-examining Mr. Worlding, suggested that Taylor's increased work for Fisons in 1964 corresponded almost exactly with the £9,000 reduced revenue of BRS for Fison's traffic. "If you hadn't been so keen to increase the Fison work." he challenged Mr. Worlding, "you wouldn't be in such trouble today with vehicles."
Subject to an agreed amended normal user reading "Mainly goods out of the Mendlesham Store of Anglia Warehousing Co. Ltd. for distribution from the store throughout East Anglia and East Midlands". the LA granted three vehicles on a new A licence which, he said, should amply cover needs. He also noted that the three trailers were to be van type.