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Horsebox Authorized Despite Rail Pressure

22nd February 1957
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THE Yorkshire Licensing Authority on Monday granted a B licence to Mr. M. H. Easterby, racehorse trainer and horse dealer, Habton, near Ma1ton, to operate a three-stall horsebox after strong opposition had been pressed by the railways.

Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the railways, said that they were not common carriers of racehorses, and if applications such as Mr. Easterby's continued to be granted, the usefulness and reliability of the railways' racehorse services would be prejudiced. Four of the 18 horseboxes available in 1956 had been withdrawn, Mr. Atkinson reported.

He quoted the Gray appeal, in which the Transport Tribunal said that the railway fleet of road and rail horseboxes in the MaIton area was a valuable facility not to be jeopardized.

Mr. G. H. Strange, for the applicant, spoke of difficulties in obtaining suitable facilities, and of occasions when horses had to be scratched from races because the vehicles in which they had been carried were uncomfortable for them. The number of horses being trained in the area was increasing. There were eight trainers, but the railways had only eight vehicles at Mallon itself, and these were over-burdened during the season.

OBITUARY

WE regret to record the deaths of ,1V1a. FRANK GROUNDS, MR. WILLIAM FIELDEN, MRS. KATE ORGAN, MR, ALONZO Lima and MRS. MATILDA E. MAYNE.

Mr. Grounds was governing director of the Aston haulage and vehicle-sales company that bears his name, and was aged 68. He was a member of Warwickshire County Council.

Mr. Fielden, who was 80, was a director of Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., for 25 years.

Mrs. Organ was senior director of K. Organ and Sons (Bristol), Ltd., hauliers. She was aged 81.

Mr. Limb was formerly chairman of C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd. He retired because of ill health in January, 1955.

Mrs. Mayne, who was 81, was a director of Manchester's only remaining private bus undertaking, which was started in 1918 by her late husband. The service -has run jointly with Manchester Corporation buses for 25 yea rs.

MORE MEN FOR VAUXHALL

DURING the past fortnight, all men released by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., because of the effects of the Suez crisis and the credit squeeze. have been invited to return, and two-thirds have already reported back for work. Demand for new Bedford vehicles and the Victor car is stated to be such that the company now -have vacancies for some hundreds more men.

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