Earnings Rose After Take—over
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A VERY high-powered magnifying rA glass was necessary to discover a case of any description, said Mr. J. Booth at Manchester when he objected for the British Transport Commission to an application by Walsh Bros. and Co., Ltd., Morpeth Street, Swinton.
Mr. S. McGibbon, secretary of Walsh Bros., the shares of which.are owned by H. Evers, Ltd., Manchester, said that they wanted four tippers of 16 tons on public A licence with a normal user of: " Building materials, hot asphalt, coke, machinery, Northern Counties, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cheshire." They already had a fleet of six tippers with similar conditions, if the application were granted two contract A licences with Evers would be surrendered.
Fleet Cut In 1958 Walsh Bros. had been compelled to reduce their fleet. Following the take-over by Evers, however, the situation had rapidly improved and at the end of the pist financial year the earnings had been £28.000 compared with £4.700 over the previous period.
At present the fleet was based at Morpeth Street, Swinton, but an application was to be submitted for them to be transferred to Evers' premises at Sebastapol Street, Manchester.
Mr. Booth said there had been no evidence of inconvenience being suffered by anybody through lack of transport.
Mr. J. Backhouse, for Walsh Bros., said that in 1958 some vehicles had been off the road and this was why the figures for that period were so low. Now they were taking as much traffic as they could with the vehicles in their possession.
The North Western Licensing Authority, Mr. F. Williamson, refused the application and pointed out that extra tonnage could not be granted on figures -alone.