Sunderland-N.G.T.. Appeals Fail
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APPEALS by Sunderland Corporation against the granting by the Northern Licensing Authority of a stage-carriage licence to Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., for a service to the new Sunderland estate of Hylton Red House, and by N.G.T. against the service frequency allowed to the corporation and the varied route granted to the company, have been dismissed with costs. There were no respondents and no evidence had been led at the original hearing before the Licensing Authority.
In his observations, the Ministry of Transport inspector, Mr. W. Tudor Davies, who recommended that the Licensing Authority's decision should stand unchanged, referred to the Corporation Act which concerned the services. He said that the clause inserted in the Sunderland Corporation Extension Act, 1950, on petition by Northern General in the House of Lords, indicated that joint operation had to ensue.
The corporation's appeal was based on four points. The new estate was really an extension of an older one served by the municipal undertaking. The undertaking should carry the traffic because it used to carry it before people were moved into the new estate from the town.
Only one extra vehicle was needed to run the service, and the undertaking could serve the area without N.G.T. The route for which the company had applied, and which it was now seeking on-appeal, was over a road which would never be made up.
The company claimed that it should have equal rights in the traffic. Two services, one dating from 1913, already passed near it. It was unfair to divert a service to a route which did not touch building .development. The combined frequency of services was too great, and the company desired that the corporation's services should be reduced.
IN A LINE OR TWO A new Goodyear depot has been opened at 25, St. Cuthberts Street, Bedford.
An overhaul of Britain's transport system was overdue, said Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, in Glasgow, last week.
Six short road-safety films have been sponsored by the Regent Oil Co., Ltd„for showing at local cinemas and by Regent dealers during safety weeks.
Production of Ferguson tractors is to be stepped up. A start has already been made and output has been raised by 50 a week to 1,570—a new record.
Mr. H. Rossington, -manager of directional services of the Road Haulage Executive. is to read a paper on the development of such facilities to the London branch of the Industrial Transport Association on April 22, at 6.30 p.m., at the Royal Society of Arts, London, W.C.2.