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A LTHOUGH British Railways
formally objected to an application to vary an A licence by the addition of one vehicle of 5 tons 11 cwt., including a container of I ton 18 cwt., for mainly livestock -within 150 miles, at Bristol last week, Mr. A. Webb, who represented them, said he was happy to leave the case in the hands of Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority.
A grant was made after the applicants, L. Pike, Ltd., New Road, Wootton Bassett, produced figures which showed that revenue had increased from £10,853 to 412,914 during the year ended June, 1960.
In supporting the application, Mr. George Rumbold. manager, British Beef Corporation, said that Pike conveyed livestock from Swindon, Chippenham, Devizes and Melksham for delivery to markets in London, Staffordshire and Gloucester. The railways took livestock from Cornwall and South Wales and a grant would not affect the amount of rail traffic.
Mr. Arthur Hayden, manager, Shropshire Fat Stock Society, said that 4781 had been paid to Pike during the three months ended June, 1960. This was for new business, which would increase in future.
PAKISTAN ORDERS FOR LEYLAND
ORDERS for bus and lorry chassis worth over £150,000 have been received by Leyland Motors, Ltd., in three contracts from Pakistan. The Water and Power Development Authority has ordered a fleet of 48 Comet CS3.3R haulage chassis for work on various land development schemes. They will be powered by Leyland 100 b.h.p. oil engines, and have a gross rating of 12 tons.
Double-deck buses are called for by the Karachi Road Transport Corporation who have ordered 12 Leyland Titan PD3.6 models, powered by Leyland 125 b.h.p. oil engines and equipped with air brakes and two-pedal transmission. They will be shipped in completely knockeddown condition with M.C.W. 30-ft.-long 79-seat bodies.
The remaining contract, from the Pakistan International Airlines Corporation, calls for four Leyland Tiger Cub PSUCI .1 underfloor-engined bus chassis.
BIG STEP IN BUS ADVERTISING
PRESENTING a paper to the International Congress of Outdoor Advertising at Toronto last week, Mr. J. H. Brebner, public relations adviser to the British Transport Commission, was able to claim that his department included the biggest outdoor and transport advertising concern in the world.
He said he had established the Commission's commercial advertising service in 1947. Today it was in the forefront of technical development. Fluorescent lighting of bus advertisement panels was the biggest change in transport advertising since the days of the horse-drawn coach.