Change in Demand for Cattle Haulage
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A SUCCESSFUL application was IA made by Mr. R. J. Simpson, partner in Messrs. J. Simpson and Son, Skelton. to the Northern Licensing Authority last week to increase to 50 miles the radius of operation of a B-licensed vehicle. It was stated that the firm's A-licensed lorry could not cope with demands for long-distance work.
A letter of support from a Penrith auction mart referred to lack of transport from local markets. Since the decontrol of meat, it stated, butchers and dealers from Lancashire were attending Cumberland sales. Mr. W. Fairer, one of five farmers who backed the application and who was the firm's first customer in 1924, said that farmers were going farther afield to sales for their stock replacements.
Mr. IR. G. Davies, Carlisle group manager of British Road Services, said that livestock vehicles at Penrith had been reduced from 15 to 10, but for some months had not been fully employed. The Penrith depot was for disposal and the Authority commented that he was not going to assume that because the vehicles were for sale they would "disappear into thin air."
OPPOSING APPLICATIONS FAIL
TWO opposing applications seeking permission to run holiday express services between West Yorkshire and Skegness have been rejected by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. The applicants were Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd. (Bradford-Skegness), and the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd. (Keighley-Skegness).
For the applicant, Mr. T. Campbell Wardlaw said "No one can say what a successful tenderer will do when these vehicles are sold under an open
A licence."