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Cook Appheation Adjourned
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AT Newcastle upon Tyne on Tuesday, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern Licensing Authority, adjourned an application by Siddle C. Cook, Ltd„ Consett, Co. Durham, who wished to add a lowloader (unladen weight 121 tons) and a .trailer (unladen weight 20 tons) to their A-licensed fleet, and sought licences for two sfeerablc dollies (unladen weight about 10 tons each).
For the applicants, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said Cooks were already authorized to operate 38 vehicles on A licence. Three were flat and all the rest special types for carrying abnormal and indivisible loads and special traffic.
The steerable dollies were intended to assist in the conveyance of long loads of considerable weight. They were the very latest and safest way' of carrying such loads. All the concern's existing vehicles were working to capacity and the dollies were intended to meet an increasing demand.
Mr. Siddle C. Cook, managing director of the company, described the dollies as 16-wheeled vehicles with a turntable on top. Each axle was fitted with hydraulic mechanism that allowed the vehicle, to be raised if carrying a load so that it could clear hump-backed bridges and other obstacles. Each dolly was fitted with a petrol engine which could be used to manceuvre the vehicle. The dollies were quite a new type of vehicle, Mr. Cook added. Only Pickfords had them in this country, and all theirs were in the South of England.
Cooks would have to cancel "a lot" of their quotations if licences for the vehicles were not granted. The dollies were on order at a cost of £10,000. The firm was getting substantial demands for the carriage of long loads and great weights such as bridge sections of reinforced concrete and pressure vessels.
There were three objectors to the application—British Railways, B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd., and Sauter Brothers, Ltd: Replying to Mr. I. Robey, representing
• the objectors, Mr. Cook said that the alternative if the application were not granted would be to bring dollies up from the South of England. He would also have to refuse his customers although his quotation had been accepted, as he did not know who he could sub-contract to in this area.
Mr. Hanlon adjourned the application for evidence of the unladen weight of the vehicles. He said he wished to have this evidence from the applicant, just as he did from others who operated special and articulated vehicles. Lists should show unladen weights because where vehicles were articulated it was relevant to know the weight of the trailer used with each particular tractor.