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return loads of Pl. building and road plant and materials on evidence of letters alone was rejected by the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, at Manchester, last week. Mr. P. Dolan, Manchester, was applying to increase the radius of two B-licence vehicles from 15 to 50 Miles, British
Railways objected. • • Mr. If, Robinson, for the applicant, said his haulage work had doubled in 1956-57 compared with that of the pre
vious year. Customers were continually asking him to go farther afield and it
was often impossible to satisfy their demands by hiring. The vehicles were special steel-lined tippers..
A representative of Val de Travers Asphalt, Ltd., said there was a serious shortage of steel-lined insulated tippers, suitable for the carriage of hot asphalt, in the Manchester area.
Mr. E. Oswald, for the British Transport Commission, submitted that the evidence supported a need for hot and block asphalt only. Apart from letters there was no evidence for building materials and plant, work in which British Railways .were' interested.
Mr. Robinson replied that it would be uneconomic if the applicant was licensed to take asphalt to distant sites, but was not allowed return loads by carrying materials from site to site, or site to depot.
. Mr. Lindsay said the evidence justified the addition to the conditions of only " hot and block asphalt within 35 miles."
MODERN LAWS WANTED IN RHODESIA EG1SLATION on modern lines in .1—+ the three territories of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland would greatly assist efficiency and economy of operation, says Mr. Guy Bown, chairman of the United Transport Co., Ltd., in his annual repott. . .
The unfolding of a great road transport enterprise in the Federation was nevertheless well under way. Road passenger services between Salisbury and'Bulawayo were now •subsidized by the Government, and it was hoped that the luxury express passenger service inaugurated between Salisbury and Johannesburg via Bulawayo over an 824-mile route would be a success.
Jamaica Omnibus Services, Ltd., controlled jointly by U.T.C. with the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., continued Co do well in 1956, and the U.T.C. investment in the undertaking had been increased to £222,633. The U.T.C. interest in the African Transport Co., Ltd., was now £632,781.
This company held the Nuffield franchise in East Africa,' and . despite difficulties caused by the interruption of the Suez supply line, the trading turnover increased last year by 9 per cent, compared with 1955.