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Another Adjournment in McKelvie Case
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CURTHER evidence was given on Monday in an application by McKelvie and Co., Ltd., Barrhead, Scotland, who are seeking an A licence to cover four specially designed articulated outfits for the carriage of 14-ton hydropower pipes from Motherwell to North Wales (The Commercial Motor, February 13).
The outfits, weighing a total of 45 tons. are required to undertake a contract for Marshall and Anderson, Ltd., Motherwell. McKelvie's are opposed by the British Transport Commission and Gavin Wilkie, Ltd.. Glasgow.
At Monday's hearing, Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, was told about correspondence between the railways and Marshall and Anderson. Mr. James Dawson, railway goods superintendent at Motherwell, said the company asked for a quotation for the 280-mile haul in September, 1957, and were told that the cost would be about £5 per ton as special wagons would probably be required.
About 10 months later, after he had discussed the matter with other railway officials, a revised quotation of £4 10s, was given inclusive of loading and unloading, and two months afterwards Marshall and Anderson were given details of the method of transport.
Answering Mr. C. Jauncey, for British Railways, Mr. Dawson said that if the company had not been considering sending their pipes by rail they would not have asked for a quotation. Mr. James Law, for McKelvie's, then asked if it were true that even now Marshall and Anderson had not been given complete details of the wagons it was proposed to use. Mr. Dawson denied this, saying that considerable details had been given of the wagons, which were still available for the work.
The hearing was adjourned for evidence by Mr. I. Wilkie, of Gavin, Wilkie, POLICE CHIEF'S SPEECH ON TRAFFIC CONDEMNED EMARKS made by Chief Supt. Malcolm Macleod, head of Glasgow Police Traffic Department, when he welcomed the "Kerb Space is Precious" campaign last week, have been described
as "erroneous, misleading and mischievous" by Mr. B. M. Reilly, convenor of the highways committee.
Supt. Macleod said he was sorry the Traders' Road Transport Association were having to beg and plead for facilities to which they were entitled, and added that motorists should be compelled to "get out of it" if they hindered trade and commerce (The Commercial Motor, last week).
Mr. Reilly has officially dissociated himself from the speech. He said that when parking regulations were introduced in the city last year the object was to speed the flow of traffic, not to drive away the private motorist. The corporation believed a voluntary scheme was better than compulsory measures.