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'APPLYING for a new six-vehicle B
licence at Birmingham, on Monday, Wm. Legge Transport and Contracting Service, Ltd., explained why they were now running four vehicles on short-term licence when at one time J. 0. and W. H. Legge had six vehicles in operation.
Mr. B. 1. Legge, a director, said that after a six-vehicle licence was granted to Legges work became scarce because of the Suez crisis, 'and two lorries were laid up. They had not been used since.
limited company had now been formed and it was proposed to take over Legge's four vehicles and acquire two more to make up the original six.
This year's haulage earnings with four vehicles were S4,I86, compared with ihe £2,600 earned by six -Vehicles last year. The demand for their services was now so great that it was difficult to arrange,
proper maintenance. • • • .
After hearing a supporting witness, Mr. W. P. James., West Midlands Licensing Authority, said the fact that Legges originally had six vehicles could not be accepted as proof that a similar number was now required. He granted five.
Asked if it were possible to sulapiena witnesses to give evidence for the outstanding lorry, Mr. James' said customers would not need to he forced to give evidence if they bad serious transport
difficulties_ POST-BUDGET PRICES 7AUXHALL M OT OR S, L T D., V . announce a series of post-Budget prices for. the most popular Bedford'
models:. 10-12-cwt. van (petrol), £445; 3-cwt. van (oil), £968; 4-ton .drop-Sidetruck (P), £870; 6-ton tipper (0), £1,225; 6-ton drop-side truck (P), £1,010; 7-ton, drop-side truck (0), £1,358',.
tipper .(P),. £1,215. .
Leyland Motors, Ltd., report a record' flow of firm orders for their 12-ton gross Comet oilers which have been reduced in price by nearly £500. The company say orders so far are four times bigger than usual.
Transport Equipment (Thornycroft), Ltd., have announced an overall reduction in the price of their medium-load vehicles of up to £781.
RAIL COMPETITION " UNFAIR " "
INTENSE and unfair" competition from British Railways was partly responsible for a £15,000 loss by Southport Transport Department last year, stated Aid. Sir Herbert Barber, chairman of the town's finance committee, when the council considered their budget.
"There is probably no other, town of the same size in the country where there is an electric train service from end to end of the borough and serving nine stations," he said. "With regard to the tremendous losses of the British Transport Commission, it must be extremely difficult to justify the uneconomic fares charged on the local line.
"It is quite impossible for our department to compete with them."