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Four out of Six Granted to Siddie Cook
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AN application by Siddle C. Cook Ltd., of Consett, Co. Durham, for six artics to be added to the company's A licence was granted in part by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at a resumed public inquiry at Durham on Monday. Objectors were British Railways Board and A. Stevens and Co. (Haulage) Ltd, of Great Ayton, near Middlesbrough.
Opening his case for the applicants, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said that the six artics would comprise units weighing 6 tons each and trailers of 5 tons each with an overall length
exceeding 13 metres (426 ft.). The normal user would be "steel, steel work, concrete, plant and machinery, earthmoving equipment of all types, for road and building materials, cast steel -rolls, mobile cranes, boilers and other abnormal and indivisible loads of exceptional weights and dimensions, including long-length traffic and other goods, to and from all parts of
BIB Great Britain and Northern Ireland ".
Evidence in support of the application was given by officials of VickersArmstrongs Ltd. at Durham, who manufactured long-length girders of exceptional weight for delivery all over the country to shipbuilding yards and 'other destinations.
Mr. G. Cook, traffic manager and director of the applicant company, spoke of an increasing difficulty in the availability of his vehicles for traffic in indivisible loads. The police, he said, had been forcing his vehicles to move only at times outside working hours and on specially prepared routes to avoid the more popular towns, and consequently his vehicles were continually stopped all over the country. His customers were not receiving the service they demanded, he added, and this trouble could be put right by the addition to the licence of extra vehicles.
Mr. Hanlon granted the application in respect of four vehicles only.