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Four Vehicles Run Since Refusal of A Licence: Hauliers "Frightened"
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SINCE British Road Services applied unsuccessfully for an A licence for six articulated vehicles, to be based at Barnstaple (The Commercial Motor, March 11 and 18), they had been operating four vehicles loaned from
another depot from that base on short-term licence. •
Rivals Agree and Gain Grants •
TWO rivals for the business of a bankrupt haulage company reached . a compromise before Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, at Carlisle last week. Each was granted a licence, but, said Mr. Hanlon, if all the evidence had been heard he might not have granted anything at all.
Mr. William Smith and Mrs. M. A. Bell, both of Haltwhistle, were each making application for a B licence. Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Mr. Smith, said that his client's offer for the business of Messrs. Lewins and Barker, Gilsland, had been accepted by the Official Receiver, at Carlisle.
Mr. G. Blair, for Mrs. Bell, said she had already reached an arrangement with a finance ccunpany to purchase a vehicle which had been used, on hire, by Messrs. Lewins and Barker. She maintained that she was entitled to the use of it.
Mr. Campbell Wardlaw said Mr. Smith maintained that he should have full use of the whole business.
.Mr. Hanlon said that he was prepared to consider licence conditions which would be common to both parties if they reached an agreement. He granted the applications on receiving undertakings from both the parties that this would be done.
DRIVERS' CONTEST: WHERE AND WHEN
DETAILS of the arrangements for several of the rounds of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition have now been fixed. The Manchester contest on July 10 will start at Manchester City Football Club's car park, Kippax Street, Manchester, 14, at 8.30 a.m.
The Stoke round on July 17 will be held at the Chatterley-Whitfield Colliery, Tunstall, and vehicles will assemble at 9 a.m. at the Old Recreation Ground, Hanley.
The Newcastle upon Tyne contest on July 24 will take place at Brough Park Stadium, Fossway, beginning at 9 a.m. Entries close on June 18. The Plymouth round, also to be held on July 24, will start at 10 a.m. at Raglan Barracks, Devon port.
OBITUARY WE regret to report the death of MR. TV FRED FOXLEY.
Mr. Foxley was dealer relations manager of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd. He joined the company in 1919 and had been with the sales organization since 1925.
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Mr. C. I. McDonald, Western Deputy. Licensing Authority, was told this at Exeter last week, . when B.R.S. made another application, this time to base four vehicles of 25 tons at Barnstaple.
Mr. R. C. Oswald, for B.R.S., recalled that at the previous hearing Mr. McDonald had suggested that the proper way to deal with the matter would be to delete the vehicles from the bases at Exeter, Newton Abbot or Bridgwater. This scheme had been tried, and Mr. R. J. Coles, B.R.S. Exeter branch manager, said that if the licence were granted they would transfer the vehicles from Exeter.
Earnings from Barnstaple, for the 16 weeks ended April 23, amounted to £13.419, added Mr. Coles. Told by the Deputy Authority that the private enterprise operators were frightened that B.R.S. would encroach on their preserves, Mr. Coles observed that the industry was a competitive one. He would give no undertaking that further vehicles would not be applied for in the future, if demand increased.
Since B.R.S. had operated from Barnstaple there had been an improvement of services to his company, said Mr. Robert Boyer, director of Torridge Vale Dairies. Business was improving and this would mean more work for B.R.S. and private hauliers, he said.
As no evidence had been presented from timber merchants and pulp nulls, as at the previous hearing, Mr. T. •D. Corpe, for 11 objectors, asked that in the event of a grant, the normal user be restricted to the traffic of people who gave supporting evidence. In any case a grant should be restricted to two vehicles, he argued.
Mr. McDonald accepted the point and awarded two vehicles, but the approved normal user was " tiinber and timber products, boats and equipment, agricultural produce and requisites, feeding stuffs, milk products, wool. machinery. and • leather, mainly southern counties, Midlands and South Wales."