STEEL SWITCH REFUSED
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AN application by T. Simmonite (Transport) Ltd. to switch four vehicles, at present on Contract A licence, to ordinary A licence was refused by the Yorkshire deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. H. E. Randolph, at Sheffield 11 Tuesday.
Mr. P. Kenny, for Simmonite, said the company operated 11 vehicles on A licence, four on B and four on Contract A. In addition, there was a fifth vehicle, a tipper, said Mr. Kenny, which was also on contract work but would be entirely surrendered, as would the contract licence, if the application was granted. The applicant's contract customer was Davy and United Engineering Co. Ltd.
In recent years, went on Mr. Kenny, the steel industry factories were complete in that rolling mills had been installed and Davy and United had been forced to look for more and more export work, with the result that demand for Sirnmonite's vehicles was tailing off.
Mr. S. Buckley, objecting for British Railways, said that he could not understand the application when £24,000 out of the £35,000 total profit of the company had been received from work done on contract for Davy and United. He submitted that neither his Bor A-licensed vehicles of the applicant were fully employed. Mr. J. Walker, assistant traffic manager for Davy and United, said the majority of work completed at his factory was for export only. All export machinery had to be packed and the merchants used their own vehicles. Simmonite, he said, had been carrying many capacity loads, against weight loads, for him and they had been paid on a day rate. Otherwise he had employed the vehicles for moving parts around the factory from place to place.
Mr. Randolph said that the type of application was common enough today, but this one had come in a strange way. He understood that for an unusual producer, unusual transport measures had to be taken, but in this case the evidence had not been sufficient to war'ant the switch to be granted.
A licence Grant
A N application by Daniel Stewart, of Blairgowrie, to add two artics on A licence to the existing one authorized, with the normal user " Frozen foods for Smedleys Ltd. and Caledonian Barbecue Co. Ltd., Coupar-Angus, within Great Britain ", was granted at Dundee last week by the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. B. Birnie.
British Railways had originally objected, but did not press this when Mr. Stewart spoke of his operation and ligures. The local transport manager for Smedleys assured the deputy L.A. that there was a shortage of refrigerated vehicles in the area and that he had serious difficulties in obtaining transport. He added that traffic already carried by the railways would not be abstracted.