Contract Licence Terms - Broken A N applicant before Mr. S. W.
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Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, . at Bristol, on Monday, admitted he had been carrying under a Contract-A licence cut stone Which did not belong to the concern with whom the contract had'beeil taken out. He was Mr. K. W. Sturmey, • of Minrose, East Road, Bridport.
He sought a B licence for three vehicles (9 tons) to carry for Bath and Portland Stone Firms. and associated companies within 150 miles. The licence was to replace a contract-A licenee for, work undertaken on behalf of • Fleet Contrac
tors, Ltd. .
. Mr. Kenneth Sturmey, in crossexamination, said that last year he began to carry cut stone. When Mr. Nelson asked who owned the stone, Mr. Sturmey replied: The Bath and Portland Stone Firms." When he agreed that Fleet Contractors, Ltd., did not own it, Mr. Nelson commented: "Then you should not have carried it on their behalf and I am very doubtful whether you should have been granted a contract licence at all for this firm."
, So far, as cut stone was concerned, Mr.' Sturmey was a newcomer and there was no evidence of need for the licence. Mr.: Nelson granted a B licence for the three vehicles to carry good for Wessex Spreaders', IA., 'within a .ra:clitis. of 120 miles.'
• RAIL SERVICE POOR: COACHES ' INSTEAD
AFIER . Mr. John Hill, secretary. of Cromer Advertising Bureau, had com plained,of the railway service to Cromer, the-Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners 'on: Monday. granted. Sheffield .United Tours, Ltd., permission to run two coaches each Saturday_ from Rotherham and Sheffield ti Sheringham and Cromer until the end of August, and after that one a , week until the end of September. ,The grant
is current for a year. .
Mr. A. G. Dyer, of British Railways, who objected, claimed that they were entitled to consideration because they provided services in lean times as well as in summer. Inquiries for services to Sheringham and Cromer had, he said, been few WHAT TRANSPORT COSTS THE true cost of transport as a service I was not that of the movement itself, but the cost to industry if it should fail, Mr. H. C. Chandler, chairman of the Eastern Area of the Traders' Road, Transport Association, said in his annual report to the area at Bury St. Edmunds last week.
The first essential to the prosperity of transport was, he said, the prosperity of the country. The way to achieve it was through efficiency in production and distribution. It was vital that industry, should have complete freedom of transport 'and be able to use road, rail, air or, shipping as occasion demanded. Freedom of the trader Louse his own vehicles. followed naturally from this premise.