Harold Wood Get 12 Additional Tankers
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Mr. A. Frazer, general manager of the company, stated that difficulties often arose with regard to maintenance. It was impossible to make use of Regulation 15 of the Road Traffic Act as they had no spare vehicles for temporary substitution. He told Mr. R. Paterson, objecting for John Foreman and Sons, Ltd., that he could not give an undertaking that the vehicles would be used solely for maintenance purposes.
Figures were submitted which showed that if the existing fleet continued to earn as much money for the remainder of 1961, as it had done for the first few months, by the end of the year it would have earned about £ gm.
Mr. G. C. Wesson, transport superintendent of the Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., supported the case and said he had encouraged Mr. Wood to make the appli cation. Esso had used his vehicles to carry petroleum, but there had been such a large increase in its consumption that they needed more transport. They had a large C-licensed fleet of their own and hired tankers from all the large companies in the country. Demand fluctuated, but for some time now Woods had not been able to let them have all the transport they needed.
In submission, Mr. Paterson contended that no assurance had been given as to how the new vehicles were to be usefully employed. There was no mention of petroleum or edible oils in the normal user. Mr. Wood had said the new tankers would make the contract A fleet spore flexible, but he did not understand how this would be brought about. The application covered the whole of Britain so it should be made clear how the units were to be utilized.
Before granting the application, Mr. Randolph said that there had been no evidence regarding powders, and in any case it was too wide a term. Therefore the normal user would have to be amended to read: " chemicals, acids. petroleum fuel and edible oils, England, Scotland and Wales."