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BR fights bid to carry confectionery

17th February 1967
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Keywords : Coatbridge, Manchester

VOLLOWING hearings in December and January, the application by A. T. Saint, A: of Stockport, for a new A licence for three vans with a normal user of "Confectionery, Lancashire, Cheshire and Scotland"-opposed by British Railways and BRS-came before North Western deputy LA Mr. A. H. Jolliffe at Manchester on Monday.

Subject to a grant, one vehicle on Contract A with Squirrel Horn and Co. Ltd. will be surrendered. Pending the determination of the application there are two further vehicles on short-term B licence with conditions "Confectionery for Squirrel Horn and Co. Ltd."

In evidence, Mr. Saint said he had recently acquired a warehouse in Coatbridge and the confectionery carried from Stockport to Glasgow would now be distributed from there and when the base at Coatbridge was established a small vehicle would stay there, leaving two vehicles on trunk work. He submitted four letters from Scotland referring to return loads.

A BRS Manchester depot branch manager, Mr. S. Smith, gave evidence of the nightly service between Manchester and Glasgow and of the traffic carried between Manchester and Glasgow and Edinburgh, saying the schedules showed availability from Scotland.

BRS had carried Squirrel Horn traffic but at that time it was packed and labelled. If it was again offered it would have to be packed to BRS requirements.

A commercial representative of British Railways Manchester division, Mr. W. Troman, referred to the agreed flat rate with Squirrel Horn, a condition of which was that all traffic should be despatched by rail, except traffic carried in Squirrel Horn's vehicles and a small fixed percentage for urgent orders.

Mr. Jolliffe said nothing about this had been put to Mr. J. P. Hardy, Squirrel Horn managing director. Mr. F. Clayton, for British Railways, said the reason was that Mr. Hardy did not know much about the agreement which was renegotiated in June last year. Mr. Troman submitted schedules showing the decline in rail carryings since Saint had started to carry.

For Saint, Mr. J. Backhouse submitted the objectors' facilities were unsuitable. So far as the small van was concerned, he would ask merely for a short-term licence pending application being made in Scotland. Decision was reserved.


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