More Vans for Food Distributors
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Two extra vans, each of 3 tons unladen, were authorized under an A licence to A. F. Holden and Co., Ltd., Manchester. by Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at a hearing -atManchester -on Tuesday.
Holden's had 14 vehicles on A. licence, five on contract A and one on B licence. Their main work was the , storage and distribution of foodstuffs. Since September the two vans applied for had been operating...under sliorC term B licence for Cerebos• Salt. Ltd.. who had asked Holden's to store and deliver in the Manchester area for them and their subsidiaries, Scott's Porage Oats and Cramptons, Ltd.
This could not be done without additional tonnage. 'Although the B licence had met a temporary -difficulty.. an A licence was required; because the products were delivered to. .the same shops as fooctstuffs for other concerns.
A representative of Cerebos Salt. Ltd., said they -had found it cheaper to discard their four C-licence vehicles and transfer the .1:aisineSs to 'Holden's.
The British Transport Commission claimed that confusion often: existed between the conditionsof a %B licence and normal user under An A licence. Their objection would he withdrawn if the applicants agreed to a normal user of"distribution • of foodstuffs within 60 miles."