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Newcomer Succeeds in Application

1st July 1960, Page 58
1st July 1960
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Page 58, 1st July 1960 — Newcomer Succeeds in Application
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ANEWCOMER to the haulage industry, Mr. E. P. Salkeld, Staveley, was granted a B licence for a 41-ton vehicle to carry fertilizer by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Kendal last week.

For the applicant, Mr. W. D. Park explained that the vehicle was required to carry fertilizer from Bridlington to the Staveley base, or direct to local farms. Mr. Salkeld would also do the spreading with a tractor he hoped to buy. During the slack periods he would carry -timber for the Staveley Wood-turning Co.

The application was supported by Mr. R. L. Thompson, a representative of a fertilizer company, who saidthat other hauliers carried their prodnets, but had all the work they could cope with. His company required an extra haulier, preferably. one who would store and spread the fertilizer.

Mr. Hanlon said that he was prepared to grant the application for the carriage of fertilizer from Bridlington to within 30 inileS of the base, and timber for the Staveley company and return loads, ROAD AND RAIL KILLING SHIPPING

COMPETITION from road and rail has been blamed for the drastic cut in the number of coastal ships operating regular services between mainland ports of the United Kingdom, by Mr. F. D. J. Buist, chairman, Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Co., Ltd.

Said Mr. Buist, in his annual statement, last week: "In recent years it has never been possible to be other than pessimistic about the future of coasting liners." Ten years ago there were 45 liners, owned by several companies, maintaining regular services, but today the number was 17.

Competition from independent longdistalice road hauliers, the increasing development of traders' own transport fleets and the railways were responsible, he said.

HIGH MAY OUTPUT

PRODUCTION of goods vehicles in May, according to the Board of Trade, totalled 36,403 at a weekly average of 9,101. Output of passenger vehicles at the rate of 376 a week amounted to 1,502. May's exports of goods vehicles totalled 12,721, and of passenger vehicles 639.

Compared with May of last year, the output of goods vehicles rose by nearly a third, but exports improved only slightly. There was a 13-per-cent, increase in passenger-vehicle output, and a 55-percent. advance in exports.

Details of production and exports in April are given on page 743.

" SCRAP ONE-WAY SCHEME THE Halifax Chamber of Trade has called on the town council to scrap the one-way traffic scheme in the town centre in favour of a plan to re-route all through heavy traffic around the town. The A58 trunk road between Lancashire and Yorkshire passes through the centre of Halifax.

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