Mr. Nelson Grants More Tippers
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SlX vehicles, including two to be acquired, were added to the A licence of Wring's Transport, Ltd.. Bristol, 3, by Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, at Bristol last week. The vehicles were required to carry excavated and road materials, and agricultural and building requisites, normally within a radius of 25 miles.
Mr. T. D. Corpe,• for the company, said that after they had explained the, case to British Road Services and Western Transport, Ltd., these concerns had withdrawn their objections. It was intended to surrender two C licences• belonging to associated companies.
Mr. M. Lockier, secretary of the applicant company, said that the vehicles concerned in the application (tippers) were needed for extensive works being carried out at Avonmouth. In the year ended last July, £13,000 had been paid to sub-contractors, but it did not follow that this figure would fall, because of the increased work available.
WOULD SIGN PETITION "WITHOUT QUESTION"
if I were a farmer asked to sign a Ipetition calling for better facilities, I suppose I would sign it without a question," Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, was told at Inverness, last week, by a haulier, Mr. H. D. Fraser. Cullicudden, who objected to an application by Messrs. D. and W. MacCallum, farmers. Conon Bridge, for a B licence.
Applicants wished to carry agricultural goods from Inverness and hay and straw from Wester Ross to the Black Isle for Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd. A petition was produced. This had been signed by 60 people who complained about the insufficiency of transport, but Mr. Fraser said that some of his customers had signed it because "they had been pushed into it."
Mr. Robertson granted the application, which enabled the applicants to enter the haulage industry, but limited the licence terms to less than had been sought.
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