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• On the receipt of an undertaking that the applicant would not enter the parcels and smalls field of haulage, three companies withdrew their objections to a B variation application in Manchester last week. H. Currie and Son, Manchester, was applying to add six articulated units of 48 tons and to amend the conditions of all its B-vehicles to: "Air freight, confectionery, hospital and chemists' supplies, containers, textiles, within 200 miles".
For the applicant, Mr G. Clayton said the application had been made to improve the maintenance position in that the vehicles were working so hard that even with night and weekend working the fitters had been unable properly to maintain them.
Figures showed increases in earnings and sub-contracting and it was intended to reduce the level of vehicle-earnings which were excessive at the moment.
Mr N. Currie, a partner with his father in the company, said the major problem had been getting the vehicles off the road for repair. He confirmed that the containers mentioned in the licence conditions, were manufactured ones for W.C.B. Containers Ltd., and this was added to the wording.
Mr A. C. B. Holliday, general warehouse manager, Hogg and Mitchell Ltd., said his company's production of shirts and pyjamas would rise by over 33 and one third per cent when it extended its production lines into the new premises it had recently acquired. Far from extracting work from the objectors, this extension would mean more smalls and parcels for BRS BR and J. Latham and Son, and Currie would continue with the bulk factory-towarehouse deliveries. The application was granted.