Shippers' Application Backed by Hauliers
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DESPITE supporting evidence from two hauliers, Wingate and Johnston, Ltd., shipping and forwatding agents, Liverpool, were last week refused a B licence for a small van. Mr. J. R. Lindsay. North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, said although he sympathized with the applicants, he was disappointed that they had produced no oral evidence from customers.
Mr, J. N. Hull said a large part of the applicants' work was collection and delivery of parcels and baggage in Liverpool and Birkenhead. The work used to be done by their own messengers and porters using the overhead railway or travelling on foot, but since the railway closed a year ago there had been serious difficulties.
The bus service was not convenient, particularly at rush hours, and often taxis had td be used. However, ships had been missed, and many customers were threatening to go elsewhere.
Mr. J. Keenan, managing director of M. A. Keenan and Sons, Ltd., haaliers, said they did most of the applicants' general work, but were unable to provide facilities for smalls traffic at short notice. It was work no haulier wanted. W. G. Boot and Sons, hauliers. also supported the application, .
For the objectors, Globe Parcels Delivery Co., Ltd., and J. B. Caufield, Liverpool, Mr. E. A. Whitehead said they specialized in dock collections and parcels delivery and were prepared to do the work at reasonable notice. The Transport Tribunal had said recently that the demand by customers for overnight ship-catching was unreasonable.
M.P. BELIEVES IN "BLACK EYES" FOR B.T.C.
A POLICY of fierce competition -CI between members of the Road Passenger and Transport Association and the British Transport Commission was in the public and national interest, Mr. Gerald Naharro, M.P., declared last week. Speaking as president of the Association at their annual dinner, he said: "We give the Commission a black eye whenever we can by grabbing all the available traffic. We don't believe in monopolies."
Mr. Nabarro said the Association would welcome Soviet coaches to this country as a way of easing the deadlock with Russia.
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