Two more on restricted normal user
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• Following negotiations with the objectors, Bolton Roadways Ltd. agreed in Man chester on Monday to reduce its application from four to two 5-tonners and to place them on a more restricted normal user than the rest of its fleet.
At present the company has a "General goods, Great Britain" A-licence but the two additional vehicles will only be able to carry: "Oil, steel and steel products, paper, soft drinks, rubber goods, machinery, wire and grinding wheels" throughout the country.
Mr. R. Lees, a director of Bolton Roadways, submitted figures showing that the company's turnover had increased from £177,000 in 1965, to £193,000 in 1966 to £200,661 in 1967. Hired haulage had been at a £76,000 level in 1965, had risen to £85,000 in 1966 but had dropped to £80,000 last year. This, said Mr. Lees, was due to the deterioration in quantity and quality of sub-contractors. He had had complaints from all his customers and several were refusing to use sub-contractors' vehicles.
Due to the closing down of plants at Bristol and Harrow and the establishment of its Trafford Park factory as the major producing centre, there was a vast increase in its transport requirements, said Mr. R. S. Walrnsley, transport manager of Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd. of Manchester. Bolton Roadways had earned £8,100 from this customer in 1967 and in the first five months of this year alone, the figure was £5,200.
A £60m expansion programme started two years ago by the Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd. was beginning to be reflected in its transport needs, said the general manager of the rubber goods division of Dunlop, Mr. J. Newton. A pilot factory had been set up in the new development area of Skelmersdale. Recently two consignments carried on sub-contracted vehicles had suffered damage amounting to over £100, said Mr. Newton. It had very little trouble with Bolton Roadways' drivers since they had been doing the work for 7 to 8 years.
The licence was granted as amended.