When Will Hauliers be Paid by B.T.C.?
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SOME operators acquired by the British Transport Commission are P*-1 complaining of the Commission's tardiness in making the preliminary payment of 99 per cent. In some instances, concerns taken over nearly two months ago have received no payment whatsoever.
A case in pointis that of a Hampshire concern, which was taken over on March 9. The company operated 15 lorries and had been engaged in transport for 40 years. The proprietor told "The Commercial Motor," a few days ago, that so far he had received not a penny in payment, nor had he succeeded in finding out how much compensation he would obtain. He said that letters of complaint that he had written on the subject to the local and headquarters offices of the 13.T.C. had not even been acknowledged.
He added that in January he licensed and insured his fleet for the full year, at a cost of nearly £1,000, and thought that the normal business practice of making at least some payment on the date of -purchase would have been followed.
Another 27 Nationalized
The Road Transport Executive announces in volume No. 6 of the "Gazetteer of Undertakings Acquired" that 27 concerns were taken over during February. They are as follows:—
A. Norman Annison, Ltd., Hyperion Street, Fluff, Yorks: Atkins (Unit No. E.60), Broadway Garage, Shifnal, Salop
13arrick and Fenton, Lid., Hyperion Street. Hull. Yorks; British Road Services (Unit No. GAS); 43, Brunswick Street, Cardiff, Glamorgan.
T. H. Clark (Rothwell). Ltd.. Kettering Road, Rothsvell, Northants; Cliffords Brentford (Unit No. A.70), London Road, Brentford, Middlesex.
Elrick and Hutcheon (Unit No. B.42), 3-7, Fittcidrie Lane, Aberdeen.
Ferguson (Unit No. B.59), 65-73, South Her bour Street, Mr, Gardner (Unit No. D.87), High Street Garage, Langley Moor, Durham; Gregory's Transport (Sheffield), Ltd., Athol Road, Sheffield, 8: N, J. Grirnseley (Haulage), Ltd., 76, Cambridge Street. Birmingham, 1.
Harding Bros. Transport, Ltd., 3, Crosshall Street, Liverpool, 1; Hutton (Unit No. F.42). Mapledurwell, Basingstoke. Liss Transport (Unit No. F.41), Hill Brow, Liss, Hants, Mansell's Motors, Ltd., Hyperion Street, Hull, Yorks.
C. Ramsey, Ltd., 8-10, Blanket Row, Hull, Yorks; Randall's Roadways, Ltd., London. Road, Copford, -Colchester, Essex; Robinson's Transport (Beccles), Ltd London Road, Beccles. Suffolk.
Service Transport and Removal Co., Ltd.. Regent Garage, Convamorc Road, Grimsby, Lines; E. Shoesmith, Ltd„ 3, Crosshall Street. Liverpool, 1; Stewart Bros. (Unit No. B.43), Ladyloan, Arbroath, Angus; Stringfellow (Unit No. C.82), Whalley Road, Shouleworth, Lanes.
T.R.T.S. (Unit No. F.40), Thatcham, Betio; Tuckers Transport (Unit No. 0.16), 358, Newport Road, Cardiff, Glamorgan; Tyne Ferries and White Star Transport Co., Ltd., 28-30, Mosley Street. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
G. W. Wood (Liverpool), Ltd., 3, Crossly& Street, Liverpool, I; Wortley and Clifford, Ltd.. Holly Lane, Chilwell, Notts.
In addition to these undertakings, Melias Transport (Bolton), Ltd., and H. F. W. (Bolton), Ltd., were compulsorily acquired on March 24. The vehicles concerned comprised 14 E.R.F. and seven others of various makes, and four trailers. Messrs. Sergeants Transport, of Worksop, who had 17 vehicles, were voluntarily acquired on April 1. Messrs. Whattons Transport, of Bourne, and E. A. Dodson, Ltd., of Pode Hole, Spalding, were compulsorily acquired on April 7 and 8 respectively. Negotiations in these five cases were carried out by Mr. K. Firth Butterfield, F.A.L.P.A., Bridge House, Packington, Ashby-de-la-Zouch.