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AN application to transfer four B vehicles to A licence in an endeavour to meet "urgent and unexpected demands," was made by Bishops Wharf Carrying Co., Ltd., Wharf Street, Warrington, at Liverpool on Monday. The company are shipping and forwarding agents as well as haulage contractors, and they wished these units to carry several commodities in connection with the export, import, lighterage and wharfage sides of their business, within 70 miles of base.
In the event of these proposals being refused, an alternative application had been submitted to widen the existing condition of the four B vehicles, at present authorized on local haulage within 10 miles of Warrington, Liverpool and Ellesmere Port.
Mr. G. P. Crowe, objecting for the British Transport Commission, said that Bishops Wharf now wanted to become long-distance carriers, where previously they had been customers of other haulage contractors. But Mr. A. G. Childs, the company's general manager, replied that they had no intention of entering
long-distance haulage and only wanted to use their vehicles in this way on occasions when they were unable to subcontract.
Adjourning the application, the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, said he thought there would be no prima facie case for the transfer to public A, but a limited grant may be made in respect of the wider conditions sought regarding the B licence.
TIPPER OPPORTUNITIES IN NORTH WEST IF the plan to extend the runway of 1 Ringway Airport, Manchester, by filling in a great chunk of the River Bonin Valley, is approved by the City Council and the Ministry of Aviation, it will involve the movement of millions of tons of rock, shale, colliery and industrial waste, concrete and earth, involving a golden harvest for tipper operators in the area.
An estimate of the amount of material required is about six and a half million tons, and it looks as if the North Western Licensing Authority is in for a busy time if the plan is approved.