Increased Turnover Impresses Objectors
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.rOLLOWING the production of
operating figures the British Transport Commission withdrew objection to an application by Mr. H. Nixon, trading as Messrs. T. Nixon, at Newcastle upon Tyne, last week. Mr. I. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, granted an additional vehicle of 4i tons on A licence.
Presenting figures for the past three years, which showed an increase in annual turnover from £8,871 to £15,960, Mt. Nixon added: "This is the first time in 40 years that we have asked for an extra vehicle."
His present licence covered the carriage of agricultural produce, excluding livestock, by three A-licensed vehicles, said Mr. Nixon. He also had one more vehicle working on contract-A licence for a concern of agricultural merchants.
• For the B.T.C. Mr. I. Robey said that had the applicant been invited to a meeting of the Road and Rail Negotiating Committee he was sure the matter would have been thrashed out there.
GRANT TO MEET BURDEN OF FIVE-DAY WEEK
B'SE of difficulties caused by a customer changing over to a five-day week, an application for two additional vehicles to be placed on their B licence was granted to J. R. Adams (Newcastle), Ltd., by Mr. I. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Newcastle upon Tyne, last week.
For the applicants, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said that the published application was: "Goods for British Oxygen Gases as required." His clients, however, did not require such wide conditions and wished to amend the radius to within 35 miles of Newcastle. The traffic, which Adams had been carrying for many years, was not attractive to the average haulier.
British Oxygen had recently introduced a five-day week, which imposed a greater burden on the normal day's work. The British Transport Commission, who had originally objected, withdrew when the conditions were amended.
ARE BALL-PENS AN ENGINEERING PRODUCT?
:THE classification of ball-pens as an
engineering product was questioned at Bristol, last week, when Mr. F. Toghill, Coalpit Heath, near Bristol, was granted a B licence for one vehicle of 18 cwt. to carry Tight engineering products within 100 miles. He claimed that the pens were engineering products. '
The application was opposed by British Railways. Making the grant, Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, advNed Mr. Toghill not to treat the award as a back way into general haulage.
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