Continental Haulage Increasingly Popular
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A BIG rise in the number of vehicles crossing to the Continent on the Transport Ferry Service was reported last week by the director and general manager, Mr. J. H. Bustard. Hesaid that loads carried varied from electronic machinery to ice cream, and the destinations included Moscow, Potsdam, Budapest, Cologne and Milan.
So far this year, said Mr. Bnstard, the service had carried 56 per cent. more vehicles than for the same period last year. In the first eight months of this year, 5,000 commercial Vehicles and trailers were moved. He forecast that in the near future London-Moscow road deliveries would be commonplace. "British road transport is becoming truly international," he said.
Mr. Bustard also reported a 10 per cent, increase in traffic on the Northern Ireland service. Last year, he said, more than 40,000 vehicles were carried, compared with 5,000 in 19411.
SCOTTISH TIMBER DEVELOPMENTS
PULPWOOD production in Scotland was a growing development, Mr. W. F. Quin, the Scottish Licensing Authority, was told last week. Robert W. Richmond, of Bonhill, successfully applied for an A licence for two vehicles with a normal user of "round timber from the Cowal and Drymen area, mainly within 50 miles, and timber thinnings mainly to Liverpool and London."
Evidence was given by timber producers of the urgent need to develop specialized timber hauliers in the area concerned. It was important to cut out transhipment of loads. British Road Services objected to the application.
TIMBER APPLICATION GRANTED
THEapplication by Neill and Brown (Transport), Ltd., of Hull, for two additional articulated vehicles on an A licence (The Commercial Motor, last week) has been granted by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. British Road Services and eight private hauliers objected at the three-day application.
When the inquiry finished the Authority, Maj, F. S. Eastwood; reserved his decision in order to visit Hull Docks to see for himself the timber haulage setup. All of the evidence in the case concerned the need for specialized transport.
WELSH FARES FIGHT ADJOURNED REVIEW of the fares increases granted to Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., and South Wales Transport. Co., Ltd., by the South Wales Traffic Commissioners last December, due to be held at Cardiff on the four days commencing Tuesday, October 25, has been adjourned, at the request of the parties, until Friday, November 4, and the following Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday.
In an appeal decision (The Commercial. Motor, September 16) the Minister of Transport ordered the Commissioners to make a review. Lodal authorities had fought the increases.