To Radius Limit with Part Load
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AVEHICLE of 21 tons had travelled to the limit of its radius not fully loaded whilst customers' goods for the same area could not be carried because the traffic did not come within the-normal user. This was explained to Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, at Glasgow, last week, when an application to continue a B licence and alter the normal user to include building.materials and engineering products within 60 miles was made by Mr. Richard Steel, Hamilton.
It was indicated through his agent, Mr. R. Mackenzie, that Mr. Steel was restricted in the terms of his normal user, which were household removals within 10 miles, building and gardening materials within 15 miles and mining materials and metal castings within 60 miles.
Questioned by Mr. D. Brown, objecting on behalf of British Railways, Mr. James Murray, joint managing director of David MacDonald, Ltd., said that his firm, who made industrial wheelbarrows, used the railways to a major extent. He added, however, that it was sometimes preferable to use road transport.
Mr. John Robert, Handy Angle, Ltd., a subsidiary of Wagon Repairs, Ltd., also supported the application and told Mr. Quin that their business in small packages was increasing.
Mr. Quin did not think there was justification for a 60-mile radius and granted the application with addition of engineering products and building materials within 35 miles of base.
B.A.O.F.R. OFFICERS
THE following officers were elected at the annual conference of The British Association of Overseas Furniture Removers last week;—President, Mr. L. C. Blundell, W. Ede and Co., Wallington; vice-president, Mr. R. J. Murrin, B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd.; treasurer, Mr. H. F. Marks, Alfred Bell (Newcastle), Ltd.