Fuel-saving Application Encouraged
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" TT does seem to me that this is an
4 application which should be encouraged, especially at the present time, to see that there is not a waste of fuel," the Western Licensing Authority said last week, when T. Silvey, Ltd., coal factors, sought to consolidate the terms of the B licences of their 12 vehicles. Alt vehicles were at different bases within 30 miles of Bristol and it was intended to concentrate .them at one operating centre.
Mr. T. D. Corpe, for the applicants, stated that they were good customers of the railways and paid them about 1100,000 a year in charges. He thought that the railways would have borne this in mind before lodging an objection.
Mr. M. Vowles, transport manager of Lowell Baldwin, Ltd., coal factors, said that his company had obtained the contract for the supply of coal to schools all over Gloucestershire. As they had no delivery facilities north of Bristol they had come to an arrangement with the applicants.
Witness could not understand the railway objection, as he had never seen a railway vehicle delivering coal to a house or school.
The objection was withdrawn and the application was granted.