No Wish to Expand, Says Mr. Sunter
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"WE do not want to extend our
vr business. .We want to carry on with the same traffic that we have always been handling as far as we possibly can." Mr. Thomas Sunter. partner of Sunter Bros., Ltd., Northallerton, told the Northern Licensing Authority at Stockton on Tees last, week. The company sought to add to their A licence a 32-wheeled low-loading tractor-trailer outfit. An earlier hearing was reported in The Commercial Motor dated November 23. Cross-examining him, Mr. N. R. Wynn, representing Robert Wynn and Sons, Ltd., Newport, Mon, suggested that Stutter Bros. were attempting to enter the heavy-haulage field. If the licence were granted, Mr. Wynn said, the applicants would be able to carry 90-ton loads.
Mr. Sunter stated that the outfit was needed for fleet modernization, but agreed that it would compare favourably with those used by the British Transport Commission.
Mr. A. W. Baltic, for Pick fords Heavy Haulage Service, said that smaller trailers could well handle the work which Sunter Bros. claimed that their new vehicle could do.
Mr. Sunter: " You are quite wrong. We are not spending nine or, ten thousand pounds on a trailer that is not likely to be more efficient than the others."
The hearing was adjourned until December 20 at Newcastle upon Tyne.
CROMWELL ROAD WORKS
WORK is expected to start this month on the second stage of the Cromwell Road extension, London, and may take a year. This part of the scheme includes the construction of new roads and the widening and improvement of existing roads between Glidden Road and Hammersmith Road by way of Colet Gardens and Great Church Lane.