Centralized Control by Allison's
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CENTRALIZATION of control in Dundee by Allison's Transport (Contracts), Ltd., was approved by Mr. Alex Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, in Dundee last week. Six applications granted included the transfer of six vehicles from Liverpool to the Dundee base, and another six from Glasgow to Dundee.
Mr. Gilbert Taylor, joint managing director, said that for the purposes of control and licensing it was considered that Dundee was the most suitable base, but they would retain depots in Glasgow, Liverpool and within the Metropolitan Area.
The change of base would not alter the type or character of their business, but would provide inter-availability of vehicles. Glasgow would still be served to the same extent, although the prepon derance of the concern's traffic was to England.
For the applicants, Mr. W. D. Connochie indicated that they also sought to standardize their normal user to: "general goods, central and south Scotland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Midlands, London and Home Counties." Other licences with an existing normal user of "general goods, Great Britain," would be similarly restricted when they came up for renewal, he added.
Mr. Robertson, granting the application, said that the Transport Tribunal, in a recent decision involving Allison's, had said that it was in the interests of the concern as a commercial undertaking that, if possible, all their licences should be aggregated as licences granted by, and thereafter under the control• of, the Scottish Licensing Authority.