B.T.C. Appeal Rejected: Ton-miles Specified
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THE Transport Tribunal, sitting in Edinburgh last week, rejected an appeal by the British Transport Commission against a grant by the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority to Highland Haulage, Ltd., Longman Garage, Inverness.
The company applied for three vehicles and two trailers to carry 30 per cent. in the north of Scotland; 40 per cent, in the remainder of Scotland; and 30 per cent. in England and Wales." An offer was made to surrender vehicles under special A licences if the application were granted.
• The Authority granted a licence fot a vehicle and a trailer, subject to the surrender of three special 'A-licensed vehicles aggregating in unladen weigh( slightly more than the tonnage of the vehicle and trailer allowed. The B.T.C. contested the decision, submitting to the Tribunal that Highland Haulage, Ltd., had not made out a prima facie case. The company also appealed, hold ing that their application should have been granted in full.
The Tribunal decided not to grant any additional tonnage to the concern, but to allow them to replace special A-licensed vehicles by others under ordinary A licences, provided that the total unladen weight of replacement vehicles was not greater than those replaced.
The percentages in the normal user were modified to 70 per cent. in Scotland and 30 per cent. in England and Wales, and it was stipulated that these should be measured in terms of ton-miles.
PARTIAL SUCCESS ON APPEAL
PARTIAL success was -gained last week by Mr. James Kemp, Mid Row, Croftouterly, Leslie, Fife, in his appeal to the Transport Tribunal
against the Scottish Licensing Authority's refusal of a B licence for an articulated vehicle, required to collect and deliver paper and carpets within 10 miles for delivery by trunk services to distant places.
The Tribunal allowed a licence for the carriage of paper. The British Transport Commission appeared as respondents.
Eight More Vehicles for Febry
THE Western Licensing Authority last week added eight vehicles to the A licence of Messrs. R. and W. Febry, Chipping Sod bury, to carry bulk cement and fertilizers within 200 miles and quarried materials 150 miles.
As reported in The Commercial Motor on April 5, the firm had sought an additional 10 vehicles, but at a resumed hearing, last week, Mr. T. D. Corpe, for Febry, announced that only eight vehicles were required.
Mr. L. Pratley, for the railways and British Road Services, stated that the work for which the vehicles were required was in connection with the Berkeley power station and Lyneham aerodrome. These projects were of "a semi-specific duration," he said. If Febry's licence were not due to expire in August, 1960, he would have submitted that a short-term licence should be granted.
Mr. Corpe said that he could not understand why Mr. Pratley was so frightened of the application when the railways and B.R.S. had no facilities for carrying the traffic.
The Authority said that one day there might he a pronouncement on the usefulness of advocates' submitting that an application should be refused when they did not call any evidence.
ROOTES EXPAND IN KENYA Q IX weeks after the formation of
Rootes (Kenya), Ltd., to control the sales and service of Rootes Group vehicles ii; Kenya, a branch of the new company opened in Mombasa on Monday.
This branch will provide sales and service facilities at the port of Mombasa, where all vehicle shipments from Britain arrive, and will be responsible for the assembly of Commer goods vehicles exported in completely knocked-down eondition.
Beer to Belgium by Pickfords
THOUGHT to be the first occasion upon which carbonated beer was exported from this country in such a manner, Taylor Walker and Co., Ltd., London, E.14, recently sent a consignment by road and sea to Belgium, using Pickfords Tank Haulage Service.
A Bedford-Scammell outfit was used and the vehicle travelled from Tilbury to Antwerp on the s.s. Empire Baltic, a vessel belonging to the Atlantic Steam Navigation Co. The stainlesssteel insulated tank had a capacity of 2.078 gal., and incorporated pressuredischarge apparatus.
All inlets and outlet of the tank had to be sealed by the Excise Officer at Taylor Walkef,s brewery, and the tank produced to the Customs at the docks before shipment for them to be satisfied that the seals were still intact.
TWO REASONS FOR SPEEDING
TWO reasons for speeding by heavy vehicles were given last Saturday by an anonymous police officer at a national conference on speed and road accidents. The first was the payment of wages on a tonnage basis. The second was the poor character and lack of social responsibility of the type of driver.
The police officer, who addressed a conference organized by the Pedestrians' Association for Road Safety, was stated to have had long experience of traffic and road safety work in a large provincial force.
GOODYEAR FACTORY FIRE
SUPPLIES to customers will not be affected although large stocks of tyres awaiting dispatch were destroyed, last Friday, in a serious fire at the new exten,sion of the Wolverhampton factory of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd. The main production sections of the factory are unaffected. The damage is placed at less than £1m