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THERE were no objectors when the Valley Transport Co., Ltd., Hull, sought a B licence from the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, last week, to operate two articulated vehicles to
carry for ' Stewart, Esplin and Greenough, Ltd., shipping agents, an associated company.
The vehicles were also required for collection and delivery within five miles of Hull in connection with trunk services operated by 12 vehicles.
Mr. R. E. Paterson, for the applicants, said that their main difficulty was in hiring suitable vehicles. The associated company had installed cleaning and processing plant, and warehousing, at Hull docks for a contract involving a large tonnage of Brazil nuts, A representative of British Extractors (Hull), Ltd., cocoa-butter manufacturers, said that an increase in the size of their plant had encroached upon storage facilities.
Mr. Paterson said that if articulated vehicles were used, the goods could be placed on the semi-trailers and taken to the applicants' premises.. This would also save transferring loads to trunk vehicles, as the semi-trailers were interchangeable. .
The application was granted.
WIDER REPRESENTATION
OVERSEAS representation of the .Leyland group has been widened. The Cyprus Commercial Co., P.O. Box 208, Nicosia, Cyprus, Leyland agents, have now become agents for Albion and Seammell. Messrs. A. G. Pruden and Co„ Calle Bouchard 680, Buenos Aires, Leyland And Albion agents in Argentina, have taken up the Scammell agency, and in Mauritius, Rogers and Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 60, Port Louis, have become agents for the three makes.
TROLLEYBUS DEVELOPMENT
MANY interesting facts concerning early trolleybuses and their subsequent development are placed on record in "The Development of the Trolley Bus," by Harold Brearley (Oakwood Press, 5s.).
The publication is No. 11 of the publisher's "Locomotion Papers," which are a series of illustrated booklets. It contains many illustrations of vintage vehicles, but the text is factual in the extreme, which tends to make what could be an absorbing subject rather heavy going,
LONG LOADS VARIATION
THE Northern Licensing Authority last week varied the A licence of Messrs. Spinks Transport Services, Darlington, to allow them to operate vehicles capable of carrying steel plates 25 ft. long. It was stated that the manufacturers of the plates, Whessoe, Ltd„ Darlington, were now producing them in such length, whereas before they had been only 20 ft. long. Existing vehicles were riot suitable for the latest products