Building Booming
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DOOMING business in the building LP industry was referred to at Bristol last week when the Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, heard an application by The Plant Hire Co. (Stroud), Ltd., who asked for two vehicles (a tipper and a low loader) to deal with the growing amount of work.
Mr. A. M. Peer, managing director of Plant Hire, said the two vehicles were at present specified in a C licence. Much of the plant they let out on hire, he said, required a low loader to shift it. I4e kept a record of the difficulties they had encountered because the low loader could not be used for the purposes required. The tipper was required to follow behind the earth moving plant.
The Authority granted the licence with the conditions that the use of the low loader should be restricted to the licence holder's own customers within a radius of 10 miles and also to collecting within that radius for delivery within a distance of 40 miles of the operating centre and vice versa.
The tipper must carry excavated materials on behalf of the licence holder's customers within 50 miles, subject to the deletion of the two vehicles from applicant's C licence.
Applicant undertook not to replace these vehicles on C licence.
SUNDERLAND REORGANIZATION QUNDERLAND TRANSPORT COM"—, MITTEE have revised their reorganization scheme for the town's bus services, following recommendations by the Visiting Committee of the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry. The plah brought about a dispute with the corporation bus employees and strike action was threatened on the matter some weeks ago. The Transport Committee have now dropped their proposal for one-man buses on the Docks-Borough Road route, and the introduction of a shuttle service between Sunderland and Grangetown. One-man buses are still proposed, however, along Newcastle Road, Sunderland.
Reducing B.R. Seri);
TWENTY-NINE per cent. o passengers carried by his ellen' Central S.M.T., Ltd., Motherwell, be Glasgow and Balloch and on the between Glasgow and Helensburg been lost to British Railways b inauguration of the new electric services on these routes, said Mr. I Farrell at Glasgow last week.
The new train service had caug public's imagination and had prove' popular. The applicants, the C S.M.T., were asking that the c frequency on the combined Bo Glasgow services be reduced from every five minutes to one ever minutes and on the Glasgow-Helens service from 15 minutes to 20 mi
His company was prepared to gi undertaking that the necessary dt tion would be provided if at any tin traffic warranted it.
A suggestion, by the Dunbarto County Council representative, that might provide feeder services to di' way stations was rejected by the missioners, who granted the applict