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After Suspension A N A licence, to take over a vehicle formerly operated irregularly, was granted by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at a resumed hearing at .Barrow last week. Mr. H. Hughes, Rock Ferry, Cheshire, Was granted the licence to take oVer a vehicle formerly operated by Farrell's Transport, Ltd., Sedbergh.
When the original take-over application was heard at Kendal on April 15, it transpired-that the Sedbergh base was a disused stable, originally used by a Mr. McDermott. The vehicle had just been sold to Mr. W. Farrell, Bootle', who' had operated it in the Liverpool area irregularly. Mr. Hanlon then suspended the licence and adiountied the case for Mr. Hughes to take legal advice.
At the resumed hearing, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said that Mr. Hughes, a master mariner, retired through illhealth, had invested his savings of £1,900 in the vehicle and goodwill and had no other form of livelihood. • A new base had been acquired at Skelsrnergh, near Kendal, on the A6 road only a few miles from Sedbergh, where Mr. Hughes would have an agent and an office.
Granting the licence, Mr. Hanlon said but for the applicant's previous record and the unfortunate advice he had received from a Liverpool solicitor it would have been revoked. Mr. Hughes had been in haulage .long enough to realize how near he had been to losing his business.
He should also consider trading in his own name as the present name of the company did not stand very high. The licence would be dated from May 19, making the suspension four weeks.
"IN BETWEEN" SERVICE • NEW DEPARTURE WHILE the tonnage of long-distance VV general traffic had been well maintained, there had been a new departure in the introduction of an " in between" service which catered for the smaller firms who, dispatch in quantities of less than full loads, said the chairman, Mr. G. H. Sedgwick, at the annual meeting of Direct Motor Service (Sheffield), Ltd.
There were several carrier firms for lots up to 5 cwt., and plenty of hauliers who could carry loads of five tons or more, but the consignor of goods "in between" these weights had' until now been unpopular with all forms of transport. The "in between" service helped to remedy this position.
During the first eleven months of last year the firm again utilized a large number of tippers on the haulage of coal and road materials, but from December last, some 8,000-10,000 tons of coal per week, for power stations, was :transferred to rail because of lower rates. Efforts to replace this traffic were meeting with a certain amount of success, but it was said that competition of this typc.is diffictilt. to meet as the road transport industry has to be-self-supporting. •