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Scottish Schedule Issued : List 8 Mainly for Small Operators
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THE British Transport Commission published on Wednesday the special list of transport units for sale in Scotland which was foreshadowed in The Commercial Motor on August 6. Since the plan for disposal in Scotland was first announced, the list has been slightly altered.
List 8, comprising about 3,000 Vehicles, will be published on November 3. Some 2,500 of the vehicles will be offered in units of four or fewer. Nearly all will be vehicles that have already been put up for sate, but have failed to find buyers.
Vehicles being re-offered will be grouped into new units, mostly smaller than previously, and it is thought that they will be more attractive to tenderers.
The date of publication of List 8 has been postponed from October 13 until November 3 to allow as many vehicles and units as possible to be included.
Tenders for the Special Scottish List, which comprises 1,234 vehicles, 127 trailers, 164 additional vehicles and 93 additional trailers, in 49 units, must be submitted by November 10. Originally, 46 units were planned.
In the draft list, units 4500, 4508, 4509 and 4510 were offered for sale by private treaty. In the new list it is stated that negotiations are in progress to sell units 4508 and 4510 as going concerns under Section 5 of the Transport Act. 1953. If negotiations are concluded successfully before November 10, these two units will be withdrawn. Units 4500 and 4509 are now offered for public sale by tender in the normal way.
In the list below. the 11 large units offered are analysed. Figures from the draft schedule, in which no reference was made to trailers, are given in parentheses_
Aberdeenshire: Unit 4500, based on Aberdeen. 122 vehicles and 17 additional, plus 18 trailers and 19 additional; four depots in Aberdeen. [127 vehicles, 13 additional.]
North-east Scotland: Unit 4501, based on Peterhead, 62 vehicles and nine additional, plus 11 trailers and two additional; premises in Peterhead and Frascrburgh. 162 vehicles, six additional.] North-west Scotland: Unit 4502, based on Inverness, 46 vehicles and seven additional,plus six trailers and four additional; premises in Inverness, Dingwall, Ullapool
and Gairloch. 146 vehicles and four additional.] Angus: Unit 4503, based on Forfar, 92 vehicles and 12 additional, plus seven trailers and three additional; premises in Forfar and Arbroath. 192 vehicles and nine additional.] Fife: Unit 4504, based on Dunfermline, 80 vehicles and 12 additional, plus 17 trailers and seven additional; premises in Dunfermline. Alloa and Leven. 180 vehicles and eight additional.] West Lothian: Unit 4505, based on Linlithgow, 53 vehicles and seven additional, plus 17 trailers and eight additional; premises in Linlithgow and Edinburgh. 153 vehicles and five additional:1 East Lothian and Borders: Unit 4506, based on Kelso, 24 vehicles and four additional, plus four trailers and one additional; premises in Kelso, Edinburgh, Haddington, St. Boswells and Berwick. 124 vehicles and three additional.] Argyll: Unit 4507, based on Glasgow. 69 vehicles and nine additional, plus three additional trailers; premises in Glasgow. Campbeltown, Lochgilphead, Inveraray B14 and Tarbert. [69 vehicles and seven additional.j South-west Scotland: Unit 4508, based on Dumfries, 79 vehicles and II additional, plus one trailer and nine additional; premises its Dumfries, Stranraer, Lockerbie and Glasgow. 179 vehicles and seyen additional.] Central Scotland: Unit 4509, based on Falkirk, 92 vehicles and 13 additional, plus seven trailers and one additional; premises in Falkirk, Denny, Cumberland and Stirling. 192 vehicles and nine additional.] Ayshire: Unit 4510, based on Kilmarnock, 46 vehicles and six additional, plus eight trailers and two additional; premises in Kilmarnock. [46 vehicles and five additional.]
Other units offered include the following, the numbers of licensed vehicles being given in parentheses:
Turriff (5), Macduff (4), Nairn (6), Perth ' (17), Brechin (two units, 5 and 6-formerly 17 and 5), Mcigle (7), Alva (II), Strathkinncss (10). Kelty (10), Edinburgh (7), Bathgate (25), Haddington (18), Galashiels (10), Strone (7), Obin (2), Abington (13), Carnwath (6), Moffat (7), Falkirk (two units, 31 and 19), Doune (10), Ayr (8) and Maybole (20).
All except the °ban. unit have
premises. The Carnwath unit is new. These 14 single-depot units, with the numbers of licensed vehicles in paren theses, are also offered:
Edinburgh (12), Glasgow (five units, 15, 6, 10, 15. 45), Elgin (13), Blairgowrie (14), Bo'ness (8), Cambuslang (10). Greenock (8), Motherwell (25), Paisley (18) and Cupar (6).
An extra unit has been created in
Glasgow since the original draft was published.
LIST 7 SALES RISE: LIST Si FIRST RESULTS
By Tuesday evening, 66 per cent. of the vehicles offered in vehicle-only units in List 7 had been sold. A week earlier the figure was 60 per cent.
Of 813 general haulage units (2,071 vehicles) offered without premises, tenders for 619 units (1,362 vehicles) had been accepted and all tenders for 136 units (472 vehicles) had been rejected. Seventy-eight cases (237 vehicles) were still outstanding.
Tenders for nine of the 12 contract units had been accepted, thus disposing of 21 of the 39 vehicles for sale. All tenders for three units (18 vehicles) had been rejected.
Preliminary results for List S I were also published on Wednesday. The list comprised 45 vehicle-only units (1,156 vehicles). On Tuesday evening nine units (208 vehicles) had been sold. Fourteen units (230 vehicles) had been withdrawn " and no bids had been received for six units (342 vehicles).
Sixteen cases (376 vehicles) were outstanding.