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Twins Granted Car Transporter
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TWIN sisters Frances and Winifred k Taylor explained to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. Alex Robertson, last week, how they came to be in the car delivery business. Miss Frances Taylor said that since 1950 she and her sister had been employed by four Dundee garageS to drive cars from English factories up to Scotland.
Fifteen months ago they formed Scottish Car Delivery Services, still driving cars under their own power, but recent Press and radio criticism of the way cars were handled on delivery runs had persuaded them that a car transporter would be a better proposition.
Miss Taylor said they now wanted to put a twin-deck five-vehicle transporter on B licence to haul new cars to Dundee from Oxford, Dagenham, Luton and Birmingham, and to carry used vehicles from Dundee to London and Liverpool for shipment abroad.
The application was supported by their four customers—Arnot's Garages, Ltd., George McLean, Ltd., Scott Fyfe Motors, Ltd., and the Wellington Garage. Witnesses said people were less willing to buy cars with a few hundred miles on the speedometer than cars with the odd mile or two. If faults developed shortly after a sale, buyers were inclined to feel that cars had been unduly punished on the journey from the makers to the distributors.
The British Transport Commission and c32 eight car transporter operators from the Midlands opposed the application, but the private operators were not represented.
Mr. Robertson granted the licence—the first authorjzed by him in Northern Scotland—but warned the twins that they would have to be careful to avoid trouble with his enforcement officers over the number of hours driven without rest.