More Witnesses Needed for A-licence Bid
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AN application by J. R. Evans, Mobberlcy, for the addition of a 3-ton vehicle to his A licence was adjourned at Manchester last week so that more witnesses could be called. Mr. G. H. P. Beanies, objecting for the British Transport Commission, said it was an ambitious application and the evidence ought to he tested. With only one witness present, he said, no increase could be justified.
Mr. J. A. Dunkerley said the applicant had two vehicles oh A licence. One was engaged daily in transporting milk to Manchester, and bringing back feeding stuffs for local farmers. The second was employed mainly on the carriage of foodstuffs and agricultural products.
Business had increased rapidly, and the quarterly total of receipts had risen from £513 at the end of May, 1956, to £1,126 in 1957._ These figures were for their own vehicles, as they did not hire. In fact, Mr. Evans was refusing enough work for two more vehicles.
Mr. Dunkerley said that S.P.B.A. Suppliers, Ltd., an organization of farmers and poultry keepers, had found that the applicant was unable to cater for their increasing needs, which involved the quick delivery of small lots.
MORE GUYS FOR OVERSEAS
AN order for 15 Arab Mark IV single-deck buses with Gardner five-cylindered oil engines has been placed with Guy Motors, Ltd., by the Singapore Traction Co., Ltd. These will bring the number of Guy vehicles operated by Singapore Traction to 118.
Another order reported by Guy's is from the Punjab Road Transport Board in Lahore. The board already have 112 Guys in service, and their latest order is for 18 14-ft. 9-in.-wheelbase passenger chassis powered by Perkins six-cylindered oil engines.
Well over half Guy's output is now being exported.
NEW ROAD OPENED
rONSTRUCTED at a cost of £230,000, a new mile-long section of the A69 Carlisle-Sunderland road has now been opened to traffic. It runs from the Newcastle upon Tyne city boundary to Chapel House, Throckley. In place of the old single road, there are now 22-ft.-wide dual carriageways, together with a service road to cater for housing development alongside.
ROAD ASSISTS RAIL
RATI, tankers are being carried by road on special low-loaders to link the Wilton plant of Imperial Chemical . Industries, Ltd., with the railway. The low-loaders, designed by I.C.I., arc solving the problem of sending butadeine to Italy from a depot which has no rail connection.
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