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• An application to change its entire fleet's normal user and to add seven vehicles was made by Gilbraith Tankers Ltd., Accrington, in Manchester on Tuesday.
For Gilbraith, Mr. R. M. Yorke said four licences containing 15 A and six B vehicles would be surrendered for a 28-vehicle A licence with a "bulk liquids and cement as required" normal user. THC and BR were objecting but the latter would withdraw on an undertaking that cement would be carried only for Ribblesdale Cement Co. Ltd., to non-rail connected points. The application was being made because its customers' own products had changed over the years.
Mr. M. P. Jenney, assistant to the managing director, Immingham Storage Co. Ltd., said that since the inception of its storage installation, the throughput had risen to 1m tons and would double in five years. Chemicals represented a fifth and that proportion was increasing. A viscosity agent which it was hoped to carry in demountable tanks from Germany would require skeletal trailers for railhead deliveries in Liverpool. The present 100,000gal would be doubled under the new system, said Mr. Jenney. His company and Gilbraith were associated.
Thames Matex's West Thurrock oil terminal had only been fully operational since the summer, said its sales manager Mr. J. J. Binzer. The 107,000-ton storage capacity would be increased by 40,000 tons at the beginning of 1969. The addition of seven vehicles would be a "drop in the ocean" of its requirement.
Representatives from six other companies spoke of their increased need of Gilbraith vehicles.
Pending the resumed hearing on January 6, the North Western LA granted a 3vehicle short-term B licence for the customers who had given evidence.
Applicant with police escort
• Out of jail, from serving a five-year sentence in connection with illegal scrap dealing. and escorted by a police officer, T. S. Hobday appeared in Birmingham last week at a Section 174 inquiry.
He holds an A licence for one vehicle which had received a GV9 in May this year, and which has not worked since April. Hobday was applying to substitute it with one in better condition and ton heavier, at 3 ton 11 cwt The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, refused the variation but said he would favourably consider an application by Hobday's wife and /or brother to take over the business, providing there were no objections or discrepancies revealed.