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EIGHTY-SIX letters from farmers and butchers, as well as from the local lime works, were submitted to the Northern LicenSing Authority at Carlisle last week by Mr. Albert Kelso, a director of Fellside Transport, Ltd., Lazonby, Penrith. There were no witnesses.
Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Licensing Authority, pointed to a similarity of wording in the letters. Mr. Kelso replied that forms had been taken by drivers to customers who complained of the service, to show them, how to word their letters of support.
Mr. Hanlon refused the company's application for an extra vehicle and a three-deck sheep container on an A licence, and for an extension of B-licence conditions from 25-100 miles of Penrith for livestock and other goods. He said that if the company wished to call witnesses. they could apply again.
For British Railways, who objected, Mr. John Liddle said that there had been a decline in sheep transport by rail, because the railways could not compete with road rates. In 1953, 48,000 sheep had been carried by rail in the Carlisle district. In 1954 the number rose to 71.000—the result of an influx of traffic from the Inverness area. Last year the number dropped to 13,000 and the decline continued this year.
Mr. Liddle said that between Lazonby and Penrith there were 23 A-licence and 18 B-licence vehicles operating, mostly on livestock traffic, as well as 27 on special A licences. In Penrith there were 41 vehicles on special A licences, 22 on A licences and 32 on B licences.
Mr. William King, for British Road Services, said that the Carlisle Group had 35 platform lorries available, but no livestock-haulage facilities.
SCOTTISH ROUNDS IN SEPTEMBER
ELIMINATING rounds for the Scottish Lorry Driver of the Year Competition will be held in Aberdeen, Dundee (or Perth), Edinburgh and Glasgow in September. The final will take place at Stockbridge, Linlithgow, on September 29. Full details, with entry forms, are expected to be distributed later this month.
As in the English competition, the champiem driver in each class will receive a trophy, and there will be a trophy for the outright winner of the contest.
Competitors in the final event who score 75 per cent. or more of the possible marks will receive The Commercial Motor Diploma of Merit.
Regulations for the All-England Competition have now been printed.