Six-wheeler Too Big, Say Works Hauliers
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BY a series of small substitutions over the past five years, a haulage concern succeeded in changing a 3I-ton vehicle for a six-wheeler capable of carrying 12 tons, the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. H. E. Randolph, was told last week.
Now they had too big a vehicle, declared Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways. He was objecting to an application by J. H. Land and Sons, Rotherham, to delete a 5-ton vehicle from their B licence, and add two vehicles of 2i tons each.
Mr. B. Lond said that although the vehicle could travel in a 10-mile radius, nearly all its work was done internally for a steel works. There were problems with such a large vehicle, however, as it had to enter loading bays behind furnaces.
Cross-examined by Mr. M. Taylor, for three road objectors, he admitted that the vehicle was only half loaded when working, and that each of the new vehicles would be able to carry 5 tons, which might lead to an increase in earnings.
Mr. Atkinson submitted that there was no case to answer, as the railways carried 3,600 tons a week from Rotherham within a 10-mile radius. The vehicle concerned did most of its work off the highway, and the licence conditions were not being fully worked.
Mr. Taylor reminded the Authority that the present vehicle was carrying only 6 tons at a time, yet the new ones would each be able to carry 5 tons.
Mr. Randolph granted a substitution for one vehicle of 21 tons, pointing out that traffic outside the steel works had dwindled. He was interested only in the work done on the public highway.
WAKEFIELD PLAN TAKE-OVER
A STOCK EXCHANGE quotation for 1--1 the entire share capital of Fletcher Miller, Ltd., Hyde (Cheshire), is being sought by C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd. Fletcher Miller are the parent company of a group of 10 companies.
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COMMITTEE AIDS MANAGEMENT
r-k A MANAGEMENT committee has
been set up by the John Bull Rubber Co., Ltd,, Leicester, to act as an advisory body to help the board. The committee will collate facts concerning various problems and make recommendations to the board: Executives at general management level form the membership of the committee, which Mr. R. N. Chambers, production manager of Metalastik, Ltd., has been invited to join to cement the association between the two concerns.