" Newcomers " Get Four New Vehicles
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OBJECT1ONS by the British Transport Commission were not pressed when comparative newcomers to the industry, J. Russon, Ltd., of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, applied to the Northern Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. G. W. Duncan, to vary their A licence by adding four vehicles, of a total unladen weight of 19 tons, in place of three vehicles weighing 15 tons 3 cwt., at Stockton-onTees last week.
Mr. P. Waite, manager of the company, said that the three Vehicles—two six-wheelers and one four-wheeler--whichthey intended to take off the licence had reached an age where they required replacing, and they intended to acquire four rigid six-wheelers with double drive to replace them.
They only b eg a n operating in February, 1959," having obtained four vehicles on special A licence from another haulage company. The business had since prospered and they were finding it difficult to fulfil customers' needs.
Mr. Waite told Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, representing the company, that the vehicles were operated from Dent's Wharf, Middlesbrough, from which a considerable amount of traffic emanated.
Mr. Wardlaw: "You are vaguely associated with them, in that you have a common director on the board?" Mr. Waite replied that this was so.
Asked by Mr. I. Robey, for the objectors, if the company proposed to change the nature of its business in any way if the application was granted, Mr. Waite replied that they were content to serve . the same customers that they served now.
AUSTRALIAN STEAMER
ALORRY that is claimed to do 12 miles to a gallon of tap water has been registered in Melbourne. The lorry, the only one in Australia, is steam-driven and, according to its designer, 30-year-old Ted Pritchard, the boiler can be fired by any liquid fuel from petrol to sump oil.
The engine is the culmination of more than five years' work by 'Ted Pritchard and his father, Mr. A. M. Pritchard, who ..built it at his engineering works. It uses the same water over, and over again, condensing the steam after it has been used for power:
HOW TO GET IT OUT?
THERE was a problem for Calvert and Holmes, motor engineers and bodybuilders of Salem Street, Manor Road, Bradford, last Friday. They had been building a 41-ton body on to a lorry at their works, and on completion decided to take the completed vehicle out to be weighed.
There is a passage which leads from their works into Salem Street, and the driver found the vehicle would not go through, because it was too high.
How to get the vehicle out was now the problem, and finally they had to dig trenches around each of the Wheels and let the tyres down. By this method they gradually inched the vehicle out.