B.R.S. Object to Bid for Stronger Lorries
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WHEN J. Stamper and Co., Penrith, applied to the Northern Deputy Licensing Authority last week for an A licence for four rigid lorries and an articulated outfit to replace a number on special A licence, it was stated that they wished to introduce more strongly built vehicles, as the maintenance costs of the ex-British Road Services lorries were too high.
Mr. Alex Lavery, manager of the Whitehaven depot of B.R.S., objected that this move would increase the payload capacity from 35 to 55 tons. After the Authority had stated that Stampers had made out a prima facie case he granted an adjournment, so that B.R.S. could produce documentary evidence of their facilities. The case will be resumed today.
Mr. T. Campbell Wardlaw, for the applicants, protested that the attitude of B.R.S. had been strikingly illustrated. The objection was irresponsible and would waste time and money. There would be no change in the traffic carried —farm machinery, coal, chemicals, fertilizers, foodstuffs, lime, machinery, paper and steel in England and Scotland.
Mr. John Stamper, managing director of the applicants, said that most of their work was in carrying machinery between Glasgow and Birmingham.
100 VEHICLES IN NUFFIELD SHOW rt /TORE than 100 vehicles, ranging from n 5-cot. vans to the recently announced 7-ton truck, formed the major part of an exhibition staged by The Nuffield Organisation at Longbridge, Birmingham, this week. In addition to the commercial vehicles, Nuffield tractors and much industrial equipment were displayed.
• An exhibit of particular interest was a Morris Commercial 5-tonner equipped as a complete mobile television outside broadcast unit. The model displayed, insured at Lloyd's for £50,000, is one of 30 built on the 5-ton forward-control chassis for home and overseas use.
Two Morris Minibuses conforming with the latest Conditions of Fitness Regulations, a normal-control 5-tonner developed for overseas markets by Nuffield Exports, Ltd., in conjunction with Martin-Harper, Ltd., Guildford, a Miles fire appliance on an LD2 chassis, and a Simon hydraulic platform on a 5-ton truck, were also on view.
In the industrial section, demonstrations were given daily of mechanicalhandling equipment. I.T.D., Ltd., were well represented by their Stacatrue and Powrworker battery-operated vehicles.
LEYLAND TIPPER FOR CHINA
ASUPER BEAVER four-wheeled model with a six-cylindered 597-cu.-in. engine has been ordered from Leyland Motors, Ltd., by the China National Transport Machinery Import Corpora
tion. it will have a 6-cu.-yd. all-steel end-tipping body by Edbro-B. and E. Tippers, Ltd., and 4LNC tipping gear.