10 Vehicles Refused: McKelvie Appeal
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AN appeal was heard by the Transport Tribunal in Edinburgh, on Tuesday, when McKelvie and Co., Ltd., Motherwell, contested the refusal of the Scottish Licensing Authority to grant them an A licence for 10 vehicles and four trailers to carry metal and metal products throughout the country.
Mr. G. C Emslie, Q.C., for the company, said that they ran 16 vehicles and six trailers, plus another vehicle which was all that the Authority had seen fit to allow. Operations from centres other than Motherwell did not concern the appeal, Respondents were the British Transport Commission, Alex Scott (Contractors), Ltd., Glasgow, D. M. Smith (Transport), Ltd„ Wishaw, Road Services (Caledonian), Ltd., Dumfries, Peter McCallum and Co., Ltd., Glasgow, and Isaac Barrie, Ltd., Glasgow.
Mr. Erhslie submitted that the Licensing Authority had not correctly appreciated from the evidence the extent of the need in the Motherwell area for additional road transport of the type in question.
MeKelvie's argument was that the weight of the evidence disclosed a need for 10 vehicles, or at least more than the one granted. There was evidence of a striking expansion of industry in the Motherwell area, particularly in relation to steel output for the Coalville Group.
The tonnages dispatched by Coalville had increased annually during the past tkpe.year' 'Mc figip-cs, were:. 1-955; 188,000 by rail and 32;000 by road; 1956, 208,000 by rail and 40.000 by road; 1957, 217,000 by rail and 42.000 by road.
Discussing the demand for transport, Mr. Emslie said that the picture was one of a fairly significant expansion of industry in the relative products in the Northern Area. The company, according to the evidence, were being offered more work than they could handle.
The case continued on Wednesday, NO SCOTTISH CONTEST THIS YEAR •
THERE will be no Scottish Commercial Vehicle Driver of the Year Competition this year. The event has been suspended because of lack of funds. It may be resumed next year.
An official statement by the organizers said that the committee would try this year to build up a fund to finance the competition in future. "An appeal is being made for donations, and in the unlikely event of no competition being held in 1959, any donations received will he refunded," the organizers said. Next year's contest may be held in June.
In the past the event has taken place in September.
£35,067 GIVEN AWAY
DIRECT financial aid distributed last year by the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund totalled £35,067, according to the annual report, published this week. At the end of 1957, membership was 16,480—an increase of 734 on the previous year's figure,