"Uncertainty" of Rail Transport Alleged
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k N appeal by the British Transport -I. Commission against the grant by Mr. W. Nelson, the Western Licensing .uthority, of an additional two vehicles n A licence to the fleet of C. W. Jones uel and Haulage), Ltd., Sherborne, lorset, was allowed by the Transport ribunal in London on Monday.
The company had originally sought :rmission to add four vehicles to their aet with a normal user declared as tainly solid fuels and agricultural prouce to London, the Midlands, -Liverpool, lewcastle and Glasgow.
Giving the decision of the Tribunal, Ir. J. C. Poole said that the carriage of te agricultural produce arriving from le Channel Islands seemed to be clequate at the moment. So far as the carriage of fuel was concerned there was no evidence put forward to satisfy them that it was not being carried in sufficient quantities.
There had been cases where it had taken a long time for coal to come by rail from the mine to the merchant, but when it was considered that the railways were carrying 150 million tons a year, such difficulties as these were almost insignificant.
Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon (for C. W. Jones, Ltd.), said the company had produced as strong a case as had been produced before any licensing authority for some time. There was the increasing demand by the coal trade for road transport because of the uncertainty if they relied on the railway.