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DARLASTON HAULIER GRANTED CONTRACT—TO-A FOR 12
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AN applicMion by Whateley Transport Ltd., of Darlaston, to switch 12 contract vehicles to open A licence was granted at Birmingham last week. It was stated that the company needed increased flexibility of its fleet to meet customers' demands. Contract customers wanted the vehicles to work for their subsidiary companies which they were unable to do at present because of the restrictions.
Objections from British Railways, British Road Services and five private operators were withdrawn when Whateley amended the normal user applied for to read: " Iron and steel, iron and steel products, within 200 miles of base ".
For the applicant company, Mr. Norman Carless said that besides the contract vehicles his clients operated four vehicles on open A licence, which also worked for the contract customers. Six of the contract vehicles worked for three companies and all 16 vehicles were already operating as a fleet so far as possible apart from the restrictions already mentioned.
The increasing traffic which Whateley was being called upon to handle was illustrated by the sub-contracting figure, which had increased from £1,596 for the year ended March 31, 1963, to £8,734 for 1964. In the following four months the amounts paid to sub-contractors was about £5,000. Mr. Carless said that if a grant were made, it would also help the question of maintenance problems.
Mr. R. H. 1. Salisbury, a director of Whateley, gave an undertaking that 80 per cent of outward traffic would be for the contract customers or their subsidiaries.