"B" to "A" Transfer. For Return Loads..
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A ONE-VEHICLE B licence with son1-1ditions allowing the carriage of-goods for five companies. in Liverpool and district could not be used economically over long distances without return loads, Mr. A. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, was told at-Liverpool on Monday, when Mr. H. 0. Thompson, Birkenhead, applied for a new A licence to replace the B.
Mr. J. Edward Jones, for the :applicants, said the 1958 revenue of £778 spoke for itself. The outward traffic was all over the country and without return loads, journeys to London and similar places could nut be made to pay.
Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for the British Transport Commission, said Mr. Thompson was seeking to transfer from B to A licence without any evidence. Mr. Thompson replied that it was impossible' to bring witnesses for return loads.
If such appliCations were granted without proofof need, said Mr. Beames, any B-licence holder would be entitled to seek an A licence.
Mr. Thompson had been granted a licence on broad terms, said Mr. Edward Jones, and the B.T.C. had not originally been .sufficiently interested to press their objection. Witnesses had been-produced before and there was no point in bringing them again to give the same evidence. It was not ,necessary to prove return
loads. .
Considering the special facts, said Mr. Jolliffe, the additional work could not affect • the B.T.C, and the application
would be -granted. .
£61m. FOR RESEARCH THE Department of Scientific and Industrial Research . is about to embark on its second "five-year plan," entailing a total expenditure of £61m. in the period 1959-64: Much of this money is to be spent in the realms ofbasic research and-on 'grants for. post-graduate training, research fellowships and sO on.
Of more immediate interest to the transport industry is the theoretical and practical work that is going on constantly, with the object of producing better and more economical vehicles, and safer roads.
Among the department's most valuable establishments is the Road Research Laboratory, which last year cost a little over £500,000.
TRANSPORT SPEECHES LEAD TO COURT ACTION
LORD JUSTICE BLACK, at the Ulster High Court last week, granted conditional orders of attachment against a company director and a Nationalist member of the Ulster Senate for contempt of court of the Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal.
They were Mr. G. C. Vincent Brittain, of Cultra Manor, Co. Down, and Senator Patrick F. McGill, of Omagh, who it was alleged had both made speeches containing charges of a grave nature against the Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal.
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