"Abnormal and Indivisible" Application From North
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MOST substantial of the many contract A licence switches that appear this week is an application by heavy haulage specialists Sunter Brothers, of Northallerton, who ask the Northern Licensing Authority to add eight articulated units. each with a 54-ton tractor and a 4-k-ton trailer, to their A licence. The normal user is in keeping with the normal operations of this cornpany-machinery plant, steel, abnormal and indivisible loads in Great Britain-and, if the application is granted, they propose to surrender two tractors and trailers now operating under contract A licences with Head Wrightson and Co., Ltd.
Similar applications for abnormal and indivisible facilities in this area have, in the past, led to licensing battles attracting, usually, objections from as far afield as South Wales and Manchester.
Scottish hauliers in the Glasgow area will, no doubt, show a certain amount of interest in an application by Blamire's Transport Services, Ltd., to transfer 10 articulated units, presently operating under an A licence from the North Western area, to their Glasgow base.
Roudham Transport, Ltd.. of East Harling (Norfolk) have applied to the Eastern Authority for a new A licence in respect of two " artics " with a very wide scope which amounts, almost, to a " General goods Great Britain" user.
In the same traffic area there is a very large 13 licence variation sought by G. W. D. L. Webb, of Cambridge, who asks for an addition of 18 vehicles, totalling 824-tons unladen, with condi tions restricting their use to the carriage of top soil and excavated materials to and from sites in connection with Webb's business as a public works and general contractor. Tipper operators in the area will, no doubt. be very apprehensive about such a grant.
In the South Wales area there are several new B licence applications for tippers to carry quarried materials, bricks. shale and so on to and from Richard Thomas and Baldwins Spencer Steelworks site at Llanwern.