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Road Services I. at Swindon, which was part of the car industry production line between the factory of the Pressed Steel Co., Ltd., and manufacturers in the Midlands and at Oxford, was completely inadequate to meet increasing demands. Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, was told this at Bristol on Tuesday, when the Swindon depot of B.R.S. applied to add 30 articulated outfits, totalling 2021 tons, unladen, to their A licence.
Mr. R. C. Oswald, for the applicants, said that the depot operated 44 vehieles and 30 serni-trailers on A licence and 43 vehicles and semi-trailers on contract-A licence to Pressed Steel. An association with the car industry had existed since 1956, and when the steel company moved to Swindon, in 1959, 16 vehicles had been transferred from Oxford to Swindon to cope with additional traffic.
Mr. A. T. G. Scott, Oxford district manager of B.R.S., said that the trailers had special superstructures to carry pallets. There was no storage space at the factories and, in many cases, 10minute clearances were necessary. In March and April, 1961, new models and bodies would be produced and there would be another upsurge in traffic.
Objectors, J. Smith (Bicknor), Ltd., withdrew following the grant of additional vehicles the day previously.
Granting the application, Mr. Nelson said that he had never heard more convincing evidence.
WIDE USER FOR TRAMPING
A CTIVITIES of the Tower Hill rA Transport Co., Boston Docks, Lines, were described as being of a purely tramping nature, by Mr. L. H. Shelton, of the Eastern Traffic Area, acting for the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at Liverpool on Tuesday. He granted the company a 71-tonner on A licence.
Mr. L. C. Pratley, licensing manager of the company, said that they wanted the licence, with a normal user of " general goods, Great Britain," for a Liverpool-based vehicle, It was, at present, on special A .licence, which expired on June 30, he added.
The company had eight bases, from Dundee to Plymouth, and had 120 vehicles on A licence. With the exception of those at Newcastle, they all operated under a similar normal user to that which was applied for, said Mr. Pratley.
Only one vehicle was based at Liverpool. and this did tramping work, which was typical of the company's operations as they had no trunk services. Granting the application, Mr. Shelton said that it was ont of the few cases where such a wide normal user was justified.