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Siddle C. Cook Apply Again

17th May 1957, Page 34
17th May 1957
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Page 34, 17th May 1957 — Siddle C. Cook Apply Again
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

AT Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing .Authority, reheard an application originally made on October 12, 1956, by Siddle C. Cook, Ltd., Consett, Co. Durham, to add an articulated vehicle to their fleet. The first application had been refused, but on appeal the Transport Tribunal had directed that it be heard again. Opposition was maintained by British Railways.

Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for the applicants, said that the Tribunal had directed that the company be asked to give evidence about the extent to which they had sub-contracted, and whether there had been a withdrawal of vehicles that had been available to them.

Mr. S. C. Cook, managing director, showed a summary of traffic subcontracted to his brother, MCSeptimus Cook, Consett. This showed that from July 1, 1954, to June 13, 1955, the traffic had totalled £2,993, the bulk of it being for the Consett Iron Co.

Witness told Mr. J. L. R. Croft, for the railways, that since the original application he had made a further application for additional vehicles. During 1955-56 there was only one month in which he had paid more than £340 to his brother.

• Each day at the Consett Ironworks there was produced more than 100 tons of metal in pieces over 30 ft. long. These had to be moved on special vehicles. Mr. Septimus Cook could now offer the use of only one vehicle instead of several, and the applicants were losing business to a Middlesbrough operator because they had not an additional vehicle to carry pieces of exceptional length.

Mr. Croft submitted that Mr. Hanlon's decision of October was justified. Decision was reserved.

The company successfully applied to substitute larger units for two trailers specified on their licence. • The railways withdrew their opposition to this.

FUEL CONSUMPTION HALVED ON REFUSE COLLECTION

FIGURES have been compiled by Mr. D. W. Jackson, Sunderland cleansing superintendent, for the comparative fuel-consumption rates of petroland Perkins-engined 7-cu.-yd. refuse collectors. A petrol and an oil vehicle were placed on a town-centre service, and a similar pair of vehicles on collections from a housing estate

11 miles away from the disposal point.

Over 30 weeks, the two petrol vehicles covered 8,875 miles and used 1,185 gallons of • fuel, yielding 7.49 m.p.g. Respective figures for the two oilers were 9,032 miles, 597 gallons

and 1 5.1 3 m.p.g.


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