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Big Rail Delays in Car Deliveries

13th March 1959, Page 77
13th March 1959
Page 77
Page 77, 13th March 1959 — Big Rail Delays in Car Deliveries
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"TWO Scottish car distributors said at I Fife, last week, that when they had vehicles delivered by British Railways there were delays in transit of up to 10 days. They were supporting an application by Mr. Douglas F. Harvey, Markinch, Fife, who wanted to put three car transporters on A licence. Mr. Harvey explained that he had been operating two of them under trade plates since 1955, but the 1958 Finance Act meant that he now required a carrier's licence. He was prepared to accept a normal user of "motor vehicles from Birmingham and Coventry to Fife." • In support, John Goodall and Co., Ltd., Neilson Bros. and Fidelity Motor Services said they had had good service from Mr. Harvey and did not want a change. Railway facilities were unsuitable because of delays which had amounted sometimes to 10 days, For the British Transport Commission, Mr. D. Brown urged that the application should be rejected on the ground that it concerned only return loads. There had been no evidence of the need, for outward traffic from the proposed base of Kirkcaldy. Mr. Alex Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, granted the two vehicles already in possession, pointing out that they had been operated quite legally for two years. Had it been an application for a completely new facility his decision might have been different, he said.

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Locations: Fife, Coventry

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