Tanker objectors drop out after amendments
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AFTER a conditions amendment had been made and an undertaking given regarding further contract vehicles, objections to two B-licence applications by Manchester Tankers Ltd., of Tyldesley, were withdrawn in Manchester on Tuesday.
On the first application, the company sought to add to the conditions of four vehicles: "Formalin for Sterling Moulding Materials Ltd." The work was at present being undertaken by one vehicle under shortterm and three vehicles owned by its associated company, Manchester Freighters Ltd., under contract to Sterling.
Mr. J. Kay, a director of both companies, undertook that if the conditions were added to the B licence vehicles, the three vehicles would be transferred back to Manchester Tankers and no more contract vehicles would be taken out by the two companies for the Sterling traffic. Sterling required them, he said, to pick up consignments of formalin at Cambridge, which were ideal return loads for vehicles delivering material in the London area and which also required these stainless steel lagged tankers.
In the second application, it was applying to add one 11.-; ton articulated tanker, which had also been operating on short-term, to carry acids for the Shell Refining Co. Ltd. within 75 miles. In order to meet objections from Bulwark Transport Ltd. the applicants agreed to the amendment "waste acids". For Manchester Tankers, Mr. J. A. Backhouse explained that this was highly specialized 24-hour-a-day work, since the leadlined tanks ruptured about once a week, and called for intensive repair work as well as intensive operation.
The North Western deputy LA, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, before granting the application, satisfied himself that a Southern waste disposal company, who had written him a strongly worded letter following a similar grant two years ago, would not be affected.