Objectors Withdraw at Tipper Application
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DRITISH ROAD SERVICES, British
Railways and five independent operators withdrew their objection to an application by Sandford Haulage Co., at Bristol on Monday after agreement had been reached between the parties limiting the goods to be carried by seven of the applicant's tippers to quarried materials, building materials and road stone within a radius of 150 miles.
The original application had specilied also " goods in bulk suitable for tipping vehicles." If the application were granted the vehicles would be deleted from applicant's B licence.
Mr. Gordon MeMurtrie, for the independent operators, submitted that the application as it stood would give Sandford's the right to carry bulk goods such as bulk grain and bulk cement anywhere.
Making the application, Mr. T. D. Corpse said at present the applicant's A licence vehicles were overworked but their B licence vehicles were not so fully employed. The object now was to even out the work between the A and B vehicles.
Mrs. SWeeting, a partner in Sandford Haulage, agreed with Mr. MeMurtrie that Roads Reconstruction (1934), Ltd., had recently put on a large number of C vehicles, but said she did not think this would affect the amount of tonnage her company handled for them.
She agreed also that the application would make Sandford's free to take traffic from other operators, but stated it was certainly not their intention to do so. Neither would the traffic at present handled by British Railways be affected in any way.