Objections Were Met
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AT Manchester last week objections by British Road Services and British Railways were met, then withdrawn, and an A licence application by J. Ironfield Ltd., of Accrington, was granted. This followed amendment of the published application for 18 vehicles to 17 and a variation of the operating area of 11 vehicles (mainly substituting Humberside for the London area).
Mr. J. Backhouse, for the applicants, told the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, that agreement had been reached subject to the application being amended. The original application for 18 vehicles included two to be acquired; the remainder, including one maintenance vehicle, were at present operated on five normal users and the applicants sought to do away with these different restrictions.
The objections were met by reducing the vehicles to be acquired to one and by amending the published normal user to apply only to those five vehicles which already operated under the same normal user.
The remainder would carry the same products, "mainly building materials, foodstuffs, footwear and light engineering ". But while the first three areas of operation—Lanes, Yorks and Cheshire— would remain common to all vehicles only five would also operate to the "Midlands and London area "; the 11 would substitute Leicester and Humberside on their normal user.
Mr. I-I. Ironfleld, director of the applicant company, submitted evidence of a substantial increase in business. He spoke of difficulties in meeting demands in Yorkshire and Humberside, particularly to Grimsby and Immingham. Only one customer witness was heard—Mr. A. A. Ward, of Princes Foods Ltd.—who said that business with the applicants had increased 30 per cent on previous years.