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B.T.C..Wish Hauliers to Have Fair Share IT was in the
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interests of the British 1 Transport Commission to see that Ideal operators obtained their fair share of local traffic, If they were starved, they might -venture into other fields of transp6rt and conflict with the Commis
sion. • • This was submitted to Mr. J. •R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, last week, by Mr. P. Kershaw, for the B.T.C., when Messrs. M. A. Sharpley and Sons, Wildboarclough, Macclesfield, applied for a B licence for a 5-ton vehicle.
Applicants were farmers and produce merchants, and dealt in road materials. They had two C-licence vehicles and had been asked by Tarslag, Ltd., Wolverhampton, who were working on a site at Buxton, to provide a vehicle for the removal of soil and rock and to bring in gravel and sand.
Mr. A. Hunter, engineer in charge at he site, said that Tarslag were rebuilding Buxton sewage works. lie had great difficulty in disposing of spoil. Six lorries were needed to keep the mechanical excavator fully employed and witness could not obtain sufficient local transport.
The job would last about 18 months and he could employ the applicants regularly. Mr. Hunter said that he had tried 10 different hauliers in the Buxton area without success, and work was held up.
Mr. Kershaw said that reasonable endeavours, such as contacting Buxton Chamber of Trade and the Licensing Authority for hits of hauliers; had not been made. There was no evidence that the local pool of transport could not cope with the demand.
Mr. Lindsay said that none of the operators who might have been affected by the application had seen fit to object. He granted a licence for 18 months' work within a lc-mile radius.
FERRY CASE ADJOURNED
APPLICATION by British Road Services, Ltd., Preston, for A licences for 20 articulated vehicles (125 tons) for the proposed Preston-Dublin ferry service has been adjourned. The case was part heard at Manchester on July 23 (The Commercial Motor. July 27) and relisted for last Monday.
The new ferry service, which was due to start early in August, is in abeyance, as the vessels have been taken • for possible use in the Middle East.
MORE ONE-MAN BUSES?
BECAUSE of the success of the present one-man-operated bus services, Grimsby Transport Committee are recommending the extension of this principle to all routes.
The transport department is to take delivery of the first of six new singledeck buses next month. Seven doubledeckers on order will probably be rteliyered in 1957