64 Contract Units in List 4: 40 Made from Earlier Lots
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S1XTY.FOUR units (204 vehicles plus trailers) engaged on contract hire are offered by the British Transport Commission in List 4, which was published on Monday. Forty units in the schedule include parts of lots not sold in List 1 and not offered in List RI.
Of the 492 units for sale, 434 are offered without premises and 58 with them. There are altogether 2,354 velaicles, including 165 spares. Thirty per cent, of all the units are in the North Eastern Division.
There is a large proportion of units of up to five vehicles, although in the Midland Division the average number of vehicles per unit is nearly 11. The distribution . of units and vehicles amon&the divisions is as follows:— Twenty of the contract-hire units (63 vehicles and two trailers) are in the South.Eastern Division, five (36 vehicles and 11 trailers) in the Scottish Division, five (15 vehicles and three trailers) in the North Western Division, four (seven vehicles) in the Midland Division, three (14 vehicles) in the Western Division, three (11 vehicles) in the Eastern Division and 24 (62 vehicles and four trailers) in the Special Traffics Division.
Big Contract Mins Two of the contract-hire units are large. One at Searles Road, London, S.E.1, comprises 29 vehicles, of which 10 are six-wheelers and three eightwheelers. Thirteen vehicles are 'based at Halifax. The contract-hire unit at Alva, Clackmannan, consists of 30 vehicles and 11 trailers.
Some of the non-contract units offered for the first time are also large. Unit 232 at Bethnal Green, London, E.2. includes 44 vehicles and premises, unit 231 at Stepney, London, EA. 44 vehicles and four trailers, unit 1735 at Bolton, 33 vehicles and five trailers and premises, unit 1742 at Lostock Gralam, Northwich, 44 vehicles, eight trailers and buildings. unit 1966 at Loughborough, 37 vehicles and premises, and unit 1748 at Grimsby, 46 vehicles. 21 trailers and property.
Among the lots which have been remoulded and offered for a second time. List 1 units96, 98 and 240 have been reorganized into two units based at 205-217 Kingston Road, New Malden, Surrey. They are now numbered 2172 (46 vehicles, including 23 articulated outfits and two vans and premises)—and 2173 (14 vehicles).
Tenders for units without premises close on April 21 and those for units vrith property on May 5. LATEST GRANTS OF FREE A LICENCES
THE Western Licensing Authority has granted special A licences to the following:— B. Lyon, 4 Pencl °aim. Bridgwater, Sons., two vehicles (5 tons 9 cwt.); Western Transport, Ltd.. Feeder Road. St. Philips. Bristol, two vehicles (7 tons 7 cwt.); P. C. Cobbledigk, New Street, Torrington. Devon. one vehicle (2 tons 9 cwt.), and 1 H. Watts, The Black Horse Inn, Warmfev, Mar IMMO], one 'vehicle (2 tons 9 cwt).
Reads of Peterborough, Ltd., Stone Lane, Peterborough, whose purchase of a transport unit was reported last week, are to resume their .pre-nationalization daily service between Peterborough and London for machinery and furniture. They tendered for 22 vehicles but secured only two 6-tonneys—" and a bonny pair they are, too!" Mr. G. Read, managing director, told The Commercial Motor on Wednesday. They have tendered again for the other 20 vehicles.
Archbold (Freightage), Ltd., 88 Jack Lane, Leeds, 10, are to resume their ,pre-nationalization long-distance services with the purchase reported on page • 214. . Archbold (Storage), Ltd., Leeds, have bought a transport unit to be used for the distribution of goods stored in their warehouses or of those in other storage concerns.
Messrs. E. Nelson and Son, Arnside, Lanes (see last week), have bought a Bedford 5-tonner for general haulage throughout the country. They already have eight vehicles. under B licences operating within 35 miles of Arnside.
Mr. J. Stewart. of Hull, whose fourth 'purchase of a unit is reported on page 214, has acquired four 6-tonners. He already has 12 vehicles.
3s. MORE FOR MUNICIPAL WORKERS
FOLLOWING the further 3s. a week increase which, as reported in The Commercial Motor last week, the bus companies are to pay to their employees from March 5. the National Joint Industrial Council for the road passenger transport industry have agreed to a similar advance for staffs of municipal undertakings. Some 77,000 workers are affected.
FIVE WEEKS' STRIKE ENDED
AFIVE-WEEKS' strike of more than 80 coach workers of the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., Kilmarnock. ended on Tuesday. It began on February 16 when the men alleged that a shop steward had been victimized.