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‘.--0 question of a shortage of haulage vehicles was presented to the Northern Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. G. W. Duncan, at Carlisle last week.
A director of F. Brown (ThursbY), Ltd.. Mr. W. Brown, applied for variation of their limited 13 licence to carry road and building materials in West Cumberland. He explained that he would use six vehicles which, during the spring, were used for lime spreading because it had .become apparent during recent years that the lime trade fluctuated more than it used to do.
When Mr. L. Lightfoot, representing objecting road hauliers, suggested that Mr. Brown was seeking to go into the haulage business, Mr. Brown agreed that granting of the application would take him into .onflict with the objectors.
Might Need 100 Vehicles
Supporting the application, Mr. Alfred Daniels, transport manager of Harrison's Limeworks, Penrith, said his firm had 40 vehicles but could use 50. Thrice he had approached one of the objectors for haulage, each time without success. Within a year he anticipated they might need 100 vehicles. There was also grave concern about haulage for a new plant soon to open at Workington in West . Cumberland.
Mr. R. Windsor, secretary-manager of Robert Liddle, Ltd., one of the objectors, said six more vehicles would be too many because there was no shortage in the summer. Harrison's request for haulage had been refused by Liddle's only on a question of price.
Mr. Duncan remarked: "This is one of those simple and apparently innocuous applications which, when • one examines it, is not so simple as it might appear. It seems to me to be quite wrong to turn these six vehicles loose to carry road and building materials within a radius of 50 miles."
He granted three vehicles to carry materials for Harrison's Limeworks, Ltd., and the civil engineering firm of F. Parkinson, Ltd., only.
NEW BULK DEPOT
ANEW depot at Gallowsknowe, inlithgow, has been completed by John Russell (Grangemouth), Ltd., to serve the Forth-Clyde valley, the Forth and Clyde shipping ports and northand southbound traffic.
The depot has been designed for the
storage of bulk transport goods and for future expansion. It has neither pillars nor girders, so that the full clear span area is available for goods storage. A 3,000-sq.-ft. workshop gives complete maintenance and servicing facilities for the depot.
Storage capacity is approximately 200,000 Cu. ft. A fleet.of 25 vehicles is based on the depot and there are five acres of parking space.