Sam Anderson Must Give Up Some Vehicles—Grant Was Excessive
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A SCOTTISH haulier was invited by the Transport Tribunal, on Tuesday, " to 'state what vehicles he needed least, because the Scottish Licensing Authority had been too generous to him. The haulier was Mr. Sam Anderson, Newhouse, Motherwell, who had been granted two I5-ton platform vehicles and five eight-wheeled tippers, together with three eightwheeled " flats " in place of six-wheelers. Appeals were lodged by a number of competitors, including the British Transport Commission.
Normal User Worries N. Wales Hauliers
FOLLOWING recent appeal decisions, many North Wales hauliers were anxious about out-of-date descriptions of normal user, Mr. G. P. Crowe said at Wrexham on Tuesday. He was appearing for Griffiths Bros., Tefarn-y-glyn, Mold, who wanted the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, to vary the normal user of their fourvehicle A licence. They sought a change from "general goods, 25 miles" to "general goods, chiefly quarry materials. North Wales, Cheshire, Lancashire, Shropshire and Staffordshire."
Mi. Crowe said the objectors, British Railways, had agreed to withdraw if the normal user were amended to read "general goods 25 miles, quarry materials, including stone, stone dust, spa, silica and tarmacadam " to the places mentioned. This amendment was granted.
An application by D. L. Jones, Wrexham, to add Scotland to his normal user of "livestock and general goods, North Wales, Midlands and Cheshire" was adjourned.
NO LOADING BAN
nESPITE the parking meter cxperi-.
ment which began in Westminster. yesterday, goods vehicles are still free to load.andunload on anystreet—except at specified }unctions. Mr. Anderson cross-appealed, submitting that he should have been allowed another five four-wheeled tippers. On his behalf, Mr. R. Mackenzie said that at a previous appeal the Tribunal had thought Mr. Anderson needed 10 vehicles, but they had granted only eight as a punishment because he had been operating irregularly.
Except for a few instances, Mr. Anderson's case was not based on traffic extracted from someone else, but on the requirements of his own customers. The question of contract licences had cropped up, but it wasnot Mr. Anderson's intention to use these to "get round" the Tribunal's decision.
Rail Facilities For the respondents, Mr. W. R. Grieve, Q.C., submitted that Mr. Anderson's work did not warrant the grants. The Licensing Authority should have held that the railways were able to provide suitable alternative facilities for the customers concerned.
Mr. Hubert Hull, president, said the grant of five tippers should stand, subject to Mr. Anderson agreeing to end contract-A work for the Coltness Iron Co., Ltd., and promising not to enter into any more contracts with them. The Tribunal also thought the grant of the two platform vehicles should be upheld, but where the substitutions were concerned the Licensing Authority had been excessive.
"Mr. Anderson will have to decide which vehicles he wishes to keep and which vehicles he wishes to give up," said Mr. Hull. "On what he decides, the actual form of the appeal will depend."
MORE GOODS VEHICLES
Tim,RE were 1,215,480 goods vehicles, for which licences were current at the end of last year, compared with
1.173,311 in 1956. Other than 49,448 farmers' vehicles, 974.990 vehicles were petrol-engined, 167,908 oilers and 23,134 battery-electrics. The total of generalhaulage tractors was 4,973.
The number of trolleybuses, at 3,441, last year fell from the 1956 figure of 3,577, and the total of petrol-engined hackney vehicles declined from 30,855 to 27,929. Oil-engined hackneys increased from 64,951 to 66,592, although the overall total for hackneys fell &ern 99,383 to 97,206.
These statistics are contained in "Road Motor Vehicles, 1957," published on Tuesday by the Stationery Office at 5s. Revenue from goods-vehicle licences last year totalled £30,363,000 and from hackney-vehicle £5,729,000.
Cut-price Tyre Sales Banned by Judges
ARETAILER who had received copies of a British Motor Trade Association circular drawing attention to fixed retail price conditions was not entitled to sell goods at cut prices, the Court of Appeal decided on Tuesday.
The Master of the Rolls (Lord Evershed) and Lords Justices Romer and Ormerod ruled that the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Gt. Britain), Ltd., were entitled to an injunction restraining Lancashire Batteries, Ltd., Darwen, from selling Goodyear tyres below list price.
Lancashire Batteries, Ltd., trading as the Tower Battery Depot, Accrington, had advertised Goodyear tyres for sale at 2s. in the pound off list price.
Goodyear's appealed against Mr. Justice Upjohn's findings that. the Lancashire corhpany had insufficient notice under the provisions of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act of the price maintenance conditions.
Goodyear's appeal was allowed with" costs. On the Lancashire company undertaking not to sell any, more cut-price tyres pending the hearing of an action against them by Goodyear's, no injunction was granted.
SUPERCOACH ON VIEW THOUGHT to be the longest coach in I the world, a Kassbohrer 60-ft. articulated luxury coach, .built for the American concern, Continental Trailways, arrived in England on Wednesday for the Start of a seven-day goodwill mission. Known as the Super Golden Eagle, the outfit is powered lag a Rolls-Royce C6SFH 275 b.h.p. oil engine.
" CORPORATION MUST PAY
DAMAGES amounting to £975 Were awarded against Sheffield Corporation at Sheffield Assizes, last webk, in an action following a collision between a corporation bus and a private car.
Mr. T. F. Needham, Grindleford, near Sheffield, claimed damages for personal injuries to his wife and himself, and damage to his car.