B.T.C. Agree to Licence Change
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AFTER a brief adjournment of the hearing of an appeal by the Transport Tribunal in Edinburgh, last week, the appellants, the British Transport Commission, said they would agree to the addition. of a tipper to an A licence issued to James Pollock and Sons Haulage), Ltd., Port Glasgow.
The B.T.C. appealed against the addition to the respondents' licence of a pi itfortin lorry weighing 2-1tons
unladen. James Pollock and Sons had c7iginallY applied to add two vehicles— a platform lorry and a tipper—to the heence, hut the Scottish Licensing Authority had decided that there was a case for only one, namely, the platform lorry.
Mr. J. M. Cowan, for the B.T.C., said that a large part of the evidence produced in support of the original appliei.tion relaied to the tipper.
During the adjournment of the hearMr. Cowan and the respondents agreed that the grant be related to the 11tper. and the Tribunal concurred.
BREAKDOWN: CORPORATION CLAIM
CAA CLAIM for .damages by Chesterheld Corporation against a haulage company. whiose vehicle 'broke down at
Barlow, bloeking the road for 'four days, is to be heard by Chesterfield
ounty. Court on October 28. The claim is for £63 2s„ the cost of diverting the en.rporation's buses . about. five miles. The vehicle, owned by Arthur Robinson (Transport), Ltd.; Middlesbrough, was carrying a large excavator when it broke down.
SWEDES BUILD LIGHTWEIGHT TANKER: PLASTICS PARTS
riA PETROL tanker of 1,364-gal. capacity weighing only 41 tons unladen has been produced in Sweden for A.B. Svenska Shell. The chassis is a Leyland Comet. Reinforced plastics were used in the body constiuction by A.B. Malmo:Flygindustri; a subsidiary of Eorenade Bil, Leyland agents in Sweden.
The tank, which is 14-ft. long, and the back, roof and doors of the cab arc of plastics, the cold-settingvolyester te-:in having been used in combination with glass-fibre cloth and chopped glass straw mat. The material is stated to have practically the same, strength as steel, but its specific gravity is only 1.7.
Two wood moulds were used to make the eight sections from which the tank Vs EIS constructed. The outer shell was made from two semi-elliptic moulded .,,a.tions and the other six pieces were used for the ends and to divide the tank into separate compartments. Three !oat-tholes were cut in the top of the c.)rnpletcd tank. The cab parts were flhricated in a similar manner, the jointing of all sections being in polyester rosi n.
The method by which the outer shell of the tank was made can be used for tanks up to approximately 16 ft. 6 in. long with a capacity of 1,672 gal.
A.B. Malmo Flygindustri are also producine a number of 220-gal. plastic petrol tanks for A.B. Svenska Shell. These are made in a manner similar to that of the big tanks, except that the shell is a seamless moulded tube tb which separate ends are attached.
NEW REGISTRATIONS—JULY THE registrations of new vehicles for I July at 18,812 were slightly up on the figure for June (18,462). Exempt vehicles took a jump from 759 for June to 1,310. The total for the year to the end of July was 128,130. Further details are given in the table below.
Nationalize L.O.R. Demand
A MEETING of Liverpool anti Merseyside local authorities, and representatives of many organizations, has passed a resolution calling on the Government to nationalize the Liverpool Overhead Railway which serves the city's 10 miles of docks, and which is to be closed.
Col. A. Buckley, chairman of the company that runs the railway, said they had no alternative but to consider closing it down. It was estimated that repairs would cost E2.6m. An alternative bus service would cost the Corporation at least 150,000.