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Company Admit Improper Steel Haulage

10th January 1958
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IRREGULAR haulage of between 200 I and 300 tons of steel during October was admitted at Widlington, last week, by a company seeking the addition of three vehicles to their B licence. Barchards Transport, Ltd., Hull, also agreed that they had been prosecuted for • irregular carriage of onions from the docks.

Decision on their application was reserved by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority,' Maj. F. S. Eastwood, after Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways, had submitted that there was no case.

For Barchards, Mr. R. Paterson said the vehicles concerned were at present operated on C licence by an associated company. They were seeking the addition to their B-licence conditions of long lengths of steel for H. V. Cowen and Co., Ltd.

Answering Mr. Atkinson, Mr. J. W. Newham, company secretary, said they had never hired other hauliers' vehicles.' They had carried steel and onions illegally. Mr. U. V. Cowen. managing director of Cowen's, said he wanted to import steel on 'behalf of a London company.

In reply to Maj. Eastwood, he said he wrote a letter, of Support when Barchards sought a short-term licence to carry 300 tons of steel plates on his behalf from Hull. The consignment never arrived at Hull. as the ship was diverted to .London. Maj, Eastwood commented that it was fortunate he refused the licence.

Mr. L. V. Brooksbank, Hull, a private haulier, claimed he had vehicles available which could do the work for Cowen's. Mr. Atkinson submitted that there was no case because the applicants had never hired, and Mr. Cowen's introduction to Barchards had been by deliberate irregular haulage. His requirements were also vague.

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO BE SET UP?

N international transport committee of the Road Haulage Association may be formed as the result of a meeting to be held at the Royal Automobile Club, London, on January 21.

More than 50 members of the R.H.A. are interested in the operation of services to the Continent. The meeting has been called to consider how their interests can best be protected and encouraged.

TOUR APPEAL DISMISSED

ANappeal by the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Co., Ltd., for a new starting point and new picking-up point in Rawmarsh for excursions and tours, has been rejected by the Minister of Transport. He has upheld the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners' decision not to grant the extra facilities.

OBITUARY

regret to announce the death of VY MR_ R Is.ilArrnEws.

Mr. Matthews was joint managing director of Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.


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