Reserved Decision on Tyburn
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AN application by Tyburn Road Tank Services Ltd., of High Wycombe, Bucks, to add two • special tankers, costing £13,000 each, to carry , gas in liquid form throughout Great Britain, was strongly opposed by The Calor Gas Holding Co. at a hearing before the Metropolitan L.A., Mr. D. I. R. Muir, on Tuesday. The decision was reserved.
For Tyburn, Mr. A. W. Balne, said that his clients operated a substantial fleet of -conventional tankers, but had no vehicles designed to carry high purity liquids under pressure. British Hydrocarbon Chemicals, one of its major customers, wished Tyburn to Carry certain gases.
Mr. G. Cann, superintendent of
. British Hydrocarbon's distribution services, said that very few of the hauliers who worked for his company po§sessed vehicles that could. carry the specialized traffic. He supported Tyburn because they had been very satisfied with the company's services over the past seven years and wanted it to participate in this growing traffic. "When you find you can rely on a haulier, then you like to stick to him. Tyburn had been taking an ever-increasing share of our traffic."
Mr. Cann told Mr. A. C. G. Rothera, for the objectors. that he was sure that Tyburn's rates would be more cornpetitive than those of . Calor Gas. The vehicles would have a larger carrying capacity because, unlike the tankers of Calor Gas, they carried no metering gear or pumps, which added I a ton to the unladen weight.
After hearing evidence of vehicle availability from Mr. B. V. Goodey, of Liquefied Pressure Gases Ancillary. Services Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Calor Gas, Mr. Rothera submitted that in view of the availability—aggravated by the coming into operation of a pipeline, which meant that Esso Petroleum traffic destined for the North Thames ,Gas Board was no longer carried by Calor Gas—the application should not succeed. It would be wrong. he suggested, to license operators who were not experienced in this specialized field of road transport.
Mr. A. W. Balne, in his submission, said that because there were few specialifed tanker vehicles in the country, Calor Gas had a monopoly which it naturally wanted to keep. The Mite bad come, he submitted, when others might be admitted to this work.