Reduced-application Grant For G. E. Taylor
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AFTER being strongly cross-examined by advocates for the objectors at Birmingham last week, G. E. Taylor, of Walsall Wood, considerably reduced an application to add 12 artics to the company's A licence, On agreement with the objectors, the number of vehicles was reduced to three and the normal user applied for was amended to read: " steel, steel sheets, steel fabrications and reinforced steel rods for Brinton, Adams and . Richards, Steel Stockholders, B.A.R. Reinforcing Ltd. and Tividale Steel Structures Ltd., as required." The application was granted.
Nine private hauliers, British Road Services and British Railways originally objected. Mr. 1. R. Jenkins, representing four of the private hauliers, withdrew his objection on an undertaking ,from the applicants that they would only sub-contract backloads of steel from South Wales for certain firms to his clients, For Taylor it was stated that the present fleet consisted of six vehicles on A licence, four on Contract A, three on B licence and an 'additional vehicle on A licence for collection and delivery from own customers to own depot in connection with long-distance services which had not yet become operative,
Mr. Stanley R. Taylor, son of the owner of the business, claimed that because of a substantial increase in traffic
from Brinton. Adams Richards and its associated firm, B.A.R. Reinforcings, the service to his other customers was suffering.
H i s customers, manufacturing steel lengths and fabricated steel up to 50 ft., had great difficulty in obtaining hauliers with the right type of vehicles to carry this long traffic. Cross-examined, Mr. Taylor said he was unable to produce figures of his vehicles' earnings in the past two years or the amount of traffic carried for individual customers. He admitted that the business had not felt the full benefit of two A vehicles added to the fleet in January and a further two in July.
Mr. Arnold Taylor, assistant traffic manager of B.A.R. Reinforcing, said his firm's output had risen in three months from 100 tons a week to more than 260 tons a week and was increasing all the time. His firm's customers notified delivery requirements at midday for delivery next day.
Making the grant, the West Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. John Else, said he was a little doubtful about whether he shouid do so. Taylor had failed to wait to see the effect of recently granted additions to the company's A licence and would need to bring more detailed evidence in any future application.
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