"Publish Goods Applications Outside Originating Area"
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DESTRABILITY of publishing applications in Applications and Decisions not only in the area of the applicant, but also in others likely to be affected, was emphasized at Manchester last week. Mr. C. R. Hodgson, South Wales Licensing Authority, deputizing for the North Western Licensing. Authority, continued hearing an application by Latham and Sons (Carriers), Ltd., Crewe, to add three vehicles to their
A licence. •
As reported in The Commercial Motor on March 15, the basis of the company's case was that Collins Express Services, Ltd., Birmingham, had withdrawn a linking facility from Walsall Wood. Mr. A. W. Balite, for the British Transport Commission, said that they regarded the case as important. The principle which the applicants were seeking to establish was that if there was an interchange of traffic between operators in different areas. and one
operator abandoned it, the other was entitled to operate the whole of the
• .service, even though a change of normal user was entailed. th Laam sought additional vehicles for work in the Midlands which they had not done in the past. There had heen no indication in the published application that the vehicles were not required in the north-west. It was only because the Commission were a national organization that they knew of it. Other Midlands hauliers were at a disadvantage, said Mr. Balite: A representative of British Railways said that they ran a special parcels service from Manchester to the 'Midlands nightly. in 1956, 164m. packages were dispatched from Manchester and South Lancashire to all areas, and claims were paid on 0.063 per cent, of them.
It was submitted on behalf of the Manchester area of British Road Services (Parcels), Ltd., that all the applicants' customers in Manchester, except 10, had accounts with B.R.S., whose service had substantially improved since 1950.
Last year. 7.im packages were collected in Manchester and an average of 1,490 parcels was handled per Claim paid. At Birmingham, all goods were mechanically handled. Collections and deliveries had declined from 15.4m. in 1955 to 13.5m. in 1956, and the 100,000 or so packages formerly carried each year by Collins for the applicants could easily be absorbed. The applicants had made no attempt to equate their carryings in terms of operational strength, said Mr. Babe. Three vehicles "turned loose " in six counties on a parcels trunk service could not give satisfaction. The crux of the matter was who should continue the terminal delivery. For the applicants, Mr: J. A. Dunkerley said that two of the vehicles sought would serve Birmingham and the other Coventry and Nottingham. Vehicles could be hired from. other operators to serve outlying districts He agreed that the application must fail if there were suitable alternative facilities, but the objectors had produced no eertified figures or details of underemployment of their facilities.
Decision was reserved.
GERMAN SHOW IN SEPTEMBER THE biennial International Motor Show at Frankfurt, Germany, will be held as usual this year, opening on September 19 and closing on September 29. The exhibition will be officially opened by the President of the German Republic, Dr. Theodor Heuss, and a large number of commercial vehicles is expected to be shown, It is one of the outstanding events in the calendar.
LIGHTING LAWS CODIFIED
NO changes in the law are made in the Road Transport Lighting Bill, which, as The Commercial Motor reported last week, has been iniroducal in the I4ouse of Lords. It merely codifies various statutes on the subject da.,-:tig back to 1927.