New Demands for Cement Haulage
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" AN important change in economic. commeroal or industrial conditions which calls for a change in normal
transport facilities may well be proved by evidence other than that of figures of increased haulage receipts." The Transport [Appeal] Tribunal made this statement in a decision given last week in an appeal by the Railway and Road Haulage Executives against the grant of a B 'licence by the Metropolitan Licensing , Authority to Hall and Co., Ltd., Croydon, to operate eight vehicles specially built to carry cement in bulk.
At the hearing before the Authority, evidence was given that the paper shortage, which Jed to difficulties in cement-bag production, demanded the increasing adoption of• special vehicles to carry
cement in bulk. It was stated that the Road Haulage Executive had no such vehicles; the Railway Executive's bulk cement containers were suitable only on sites where there were railway sidings or 4-ton cranes which could lift t h e containers from lorries.
The Executives' appeal failed. In its decision, the Tribunal referred to evidence given by Mr. D. S. flarlock, traffic manager of Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Ltd., that his company, besides hiring 14 special vehicles, had 60 on order, and to the evidence of another witness that the Railway Executive had 1,000 special containers on order. There could therefore be no question about the great and growing demand for -facilities for the bulk haulage of cement, it slated.