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Bid for 20 Transporters Adjourned

19th April 1963, Page 15
19th April 1963
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Page 15, 19th April 1963 — Bid for 20 Transporters Adjourned
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THE East Midland Licensing Authority, Mr_ C. R. Hodgson, adjourning an application by a Coventry car transporter agency, told the applicant's solicitor that the only way he could present an application for a new B licence was to produce certified figures and records of sub-contracted work and work refused by the objectors.

He was hearing an application by Progressive Deliveries Ltd. for a licence to operate 20 transporters (10 articulated and 10 tractors and trailers) to carry motorcars and light commercial vehicles " as required" from a new base at Cowley.

For the applicant, Mr. T. F. Horn said that Progressive based its application on a new Oxford delivery and distribution compound which had recently been completed at Littlemore. Also connected with the application was the new Rootes compound scheme for the new factory in Scotland.

Mr. W. F. Horn, managing director of Progressive and also transport director of Anglo Freight Network Ltd., was asked by Mr. Hodgson to explain the nature of the company working for Rootes, and said that at Coventry there was a car marshalling company called Mortons Ltd. At Linwood, Masterways (Scotland) Ltd. marshalled the cars. These companies had contracts to deliver cars throughout the country. Because of technical difficulties to do with the contracts, Anglo Freight Networks Ltd. had been formed. Many transporters were being operated under the agreement and British Railways was under contract to supply charter trains between England and Scotland.

Mr. Horn said that Progressive handled about 1,500 cars a week of all makes. 'Hie present demand for transporters far exceeded supply and it received no help from local contractors in the area. With the new Scottish factory coming into production he anticipated that the mileage it had to cover would he doubled.

Cross-examined by Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley, for British Railways Board, Mr. Horn refuted a suggestion that the transporters, when fully loaded, exceeded the legal length requirement.

Asked why the application had not been made in the Scottish Area where the main traffic emanated from, Mr. Horn said that it would not be practical to have all vehicles based at one place. He denied that a recent application in the Scottish Area by Celtic Autos (The Commercial Motor, March 22) had anything to do with Auto Deliveries. "I was there purely as a witness ", he said.


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