DELAYS AND DAMAGE LOSE TRAFFIC FOR RAILWAYS
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AREPRESENTATIVE of the Walpamur Manufacturing Co., at Darwen, supporting an application by F. Wearing and Co., of Blackburn, for permission to acquire two extra 5-ton vehicles, said that many complaints had been received of delays in the delivery of the company's goods by rail. Sometimes these delays extended over a month, or longer. In one instance, goods which r left Damen on June 3 were not delivered in the London area until. August 17
Another witness spoke of the increased pilferage of goods sent by 'rail, It was also stated that there was twice as much damage .done to tinned goods by rail as there was by road vehicles—" not due to carelessness, but because it is inherent in the system," explained Mr. H. Backhouse, The North-Western Deputy Licensing Authority granted the application.