Transporter Decision Reserved
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RESERV1NG his decision on an application by Progressive Deliveries Ltd. for B licences for 10 lorries and trailers and 10 articulated vehicles, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, East Midland Licensing Authority, said in Oxford on Wednesday that the case had not been well presented.
The hearing had been adjourned for the applicant's operating figures to be produeed. Mr. W. F. Horn, managing director of the applicants and transport director of Auto-Freight Network Ltd., Rootes Group car-compound contractors, produced figures but agreed that these covered only the past three months, saying: "figures of the past two years do not have an active bearing on present requirements ".
He said they had taken over 700 vehicles from Linwood for distribution in April and would be handling about half of the plant's future output. A Rootes official had said that Linwood production would be some 60,000 units a year.
The company's vehicle mileage was already 40 per cent above the national average, said Mr. Horn; it was applying for licences in Birmingham for 10 more vehicles.
For the applicant, Mr. T. F. Horn said the company was handling about 1,500 vehicles a week and output was rising.
British Railways, B.R.S. and three Oxford car-collection companies objected
'Six' Bid Adjourned
TO facilitate the carriage of motorcar
components to the Ford Motor Co. at Dagenham, Brewer and Turnbull Ltd. applied for an A licence for six vehicles of 21 tons at Manchester on Monday. Mr. A. Balne, for the applicant, said that the units would carry mainly goods for Chiswick and Wright Ltd., Blackpool.
Managing director, Mr. R. S. Brewer, refused to give an undertaking that the vehicles would not do household removals, and said he wished to integrate them with the rest of his fleet.
The North Western Licensing Authority, Major-General A. F. J. Elmslie, adjourned the case until June 17 and 18.
Barbour Bid Fails DUNCAN BARBOUR AND SON LTD., of Glasgow, was unsuccessful in Glasgow last Friday when applying for an A licence for six artics totalling 371 tons (all to be acquired) to carry "Whisky for the Strathleven Bonding Co. in Great Britain ".
Refusing the application, Mr. Quin said that the evidence of the objectors suggested that there was ample availability and there was no justification for any grant,