List R2 Next Week: List 5 on April 28
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TRANSPORT units for which no I tender was accepted on the first offer will be placed on the market again next Wednesday in List R2. It will contain "vehicle only" units from Lists -and 3 and units with premises from previous lists. They will be re-offered in the same form. About 215. units (1.800 vehicles) will be included.
List 5, to be published on April 28, will contain a number of units composed of heavy-haulage, furniture, tank and contract-hire vehicles. The hulk of the units will be either (a) vehicles previously offered with premises, but now put up for sale in smaller lots of vehicles only, or (b) new general haulage units which have been planned with particular attention to known requirements. Some 650 lots (2,050 vehicles) will be offered.
SERVICES FROM NORTH-WEST TO SOUTH
SCERVICES from the north-west to Oxford, London and the South Coast are to be run by Messrs. Moss and Lovatt, Mill House Garage, Rushton Spencer, Meeclesfield, who have bought five Thornycrofts from British Road Services at Alvaston, Derby, Two Sturdy Stars and a Trident 8-tonner wilt be taken over on April 12 and two more Sturdy Stars a week later.
Messrs. Dean and Wcdgbrow, 48 Bristol Road, Birmingham, are buying unit 1642 (a vehicle and a container). Messrs. Stone and Ogan, 70 Allestree Lane, Allestree, Derby, have purchased an Atkinson 15-tonner and an A.E.C. 8-tonner.
In the Northern Area, Mr. G. Neill, 6 Brcamish Street, Newcastle, has bought two vehicles (6 tons 14 cwt.) and R.A.H. Transporters, Ltd., 28 Side; Newcastle, have taken over two vehicles (14 tons 16 cwt.) from Mr. R. A. Hunter.
Recent purchases in the Western Area are by V. Young, Ltd., The Bourne, Brimscombe, Stroud (two vehicles) and Messrs. Smith and Lacy, 21 Station Road, Corsham (an articulated outfit).
Many other names appear on pages 250-251.
"NO RIGHT TO MONOPOLY" " TTHIS is not a case in which anybody body has a right to claim monopoly traffic. We have been operating along or near the proposed route since 1928, catering for the people of the estate as far as we could during development."
Mr. W. R. Hargreaves made this statement in defence of Hebble Motor Services, Ltd., whose application for permission to operate a new motorbus service to the Buttershaw estate was opposed by Bradford. [An inquiry into the counter-claims of Hebble and the corporation for providing services to the estate is rpported on page 238.] By last December, said Mr. liargreaves. there was accommodation for 5,000 people on the estate. Hebble had introduced duplication of services, but in January a resident, supported by a petition signed by about 70 others, had requested an improved service.
For the corporation. Mr. H. Cooke, deputy city engineer, said in his opinion two roads on the proposed route were unsuitable for double-deck buses because they were made of unreinforced concrete slabs.
The Authority reserved his decision.
NO B LICENCE FOR FURNITURE DEALERS
BECAUSE traffic might be abstracted from established removers, the Northern Licensing Authority on Tuesday refused a B licence to Smiths,. Ltd., furniture dealers, 41 King Street, South Shields, for two vehicles to carry furniture and household effects within an 80-mile radius.
Mr. G. 0. Nixon. traffic manager of the applicants, said that the company had branches throughout the country. Seven vehicles were based at South Shields. The company were often asked to move furniture for customers; for example. a married couple living with relations or in a flat would require the removal of furniture they already had when they were allocated a council house and bought new furniture. They had to be refused.
Seven hauliers. British Railways and British Road Services objected.
TRANSPORT " TOUTS " BUSY
AN allegation that touts from transport agencies in London visited snack bars and other places where lorry drivers met in the Tower Hill area and persuaded them to break the law, was made by George Henry Wooleott, Woodstock Terrace, Poplar, London. E.. when he appeared at Dunstable Magistrates Court, on Tuesday.
Woolcott was fined £5 for using a Clicence lorry to carry goods for hire or reward. He was also fined £20 for not being insured against third-party risks, £3 for speeding, £1 for not exhibiting an identity disc on his vehicle, and was ordered to pay £5 18s. costs.
STRONG LINE ON COAL WORK
" TN future I will refuse all licence 1 applications to carry opencast coal where the need is not established. Recent prosecutions have established that many vehicles operated on this work are not in fit and proper condition, and I shall continue to prosecute where this occurs in future."
The Northern Licensing Authority made this statement on Tuesday when Mr. J. R. Hands. Ryton-on-Tyne. successfully applied to carry lime, sand and mortar, but withdrew that part of his application to carry opencast coal.
The Authority added: "it may well be that, due to uneconomic rates which are being paid for this class of work, the hauliers cannot afford to maintain their vehicles properly."