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OBJECTING to the addition of one vehicle to a haulier's B licence, British Railways submitted at Bristol, on Monday, that if a grant were made the conditions should be limited to named quarries. This suggestion was rejected by the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, when the railways declined to put forward supporting evidence..
Ile allowed A. E. Usher and Sons. Weston-super-Mare, an extra vehicle of 2 tons 19 cwt. for quarry products and building materials within 25 miles.
For the applicants, Mr. Bernard Dodson, of Dodson and Sons, builders, said his company had 60 houses under construction and 30 more had to be started. Their programme allowed one new house every 14 days, but transport difficulties were delaying them by as much as two days. This delay would be cut if Usher's were allowed additional facilities.
RATING APPEAL DECISION RESERVED
DECISION was reserved by Edinburgh Valuation Appeal Court last week on the appeal by Scottish Omnibuses. Ltd., to have the £5,250 valuation of the new Edinburgh bus station reduced to £1,000 (The Commercial Motor last week).
The company contended that the valuation should have been based not upon the contractor's method, involving a calculation for capital outlay and site cost, but the comparative principle, entailing comparison with bus stations elsewhere.
Mr. William Marr, city assessor, told the court that there was no basis for comparison between Edinburgh station and those in other towns. Mr. Joseph Bell, chartered surveyor, said that in some respects the Edinburgh station was infdior to others.
ADDITIVE SALES DEPARTURE
ri-TEM1CAL additives are to be made
available by the Wakefield Group to outside companies, and it is the intention of the organization to manufacture and market other chemical products not necessarily connected with lubricants. The marketing will be through Edwin Cooper and Co., Ltd., the hoard of which has been reconstituted with Mr.
L. M. Broadway as chairman and Mr. G. H. Thornley managing director.
£2110m. FOR ROAD TRANSPORT
COSTS of the purchase, operation and maintenance of vehicles in Sweden totalled £180m. in 1956, the Swedish Minister of Transport has said. If expenses for roads and investments in garages, workshops, parking places and the like were added, the total would probably be over £280m., or about 7 per cent. of the country's aggregate assets of goods and services.