Northern Industrialists Demand Lorries
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iT was made abundantly clear at the Morpeth, Newcastle and Durham sittings, last week, of the Northern Licensing Authority, that road transport from Tyneside and Tees-side to the south is increasing. Sir John Maxwell, the Authority, dealt with 130 applications, and, almost without exception, the applicants desired more adequate facilities to enable them to cope with the trade revival.
Numerous applicants were represented by Mr. Frank Milton and Mr. R. C. Hunter, of Associated Road Operators. In almost every case, applications were contested by the L.N.E. Railway Co.
An outstanding point was that the largest manufacturing concerns on the north-east coast are anxious to increase the carriage of heavy gnods by road. They are pressing hauliers to provide more adequate facilities.
Another fact which emerged at Dur
ham was that a West Hartlepool concern is sending weekly by road 25-30 tons of a special metal material for replacing plastering in buildings. The demand along the south coast is stated to be increasing rapidly, and one haulier who specializes in the carriage of this material has applied for four more vehicles.
Consequent on the general trade improvement in Bradford, there is an increased demand for road transport and more expeditious handling, according to evidence, given by Mr. Harold Goodwin, secretary of Blythe and Berwick (1928), Ltd., when this Bradford haulage concern applied to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority for permission to substitute a new and larger lorry for an old one. Mr. Goodwin said that about 75 per cent, of the cornpany's business was with concerns in the wool textile industry.
The application was granted.