Two Feeder Vehicles for Trunk Haulier
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A DARLINGTON company, Spinks
Transport Services, Ltd., successfully applied to the Deputy Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, on Tuesday to add two 5-ton vehicles to their A licence, to operate from their London base.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Spinks, told Mr. Macdonald that, subject to his clients amending the proposed normal user, which was "mainly for the collection and delivery of goods ex trunk vehicles," the objection lodged by the British Transport Commission would be withdrawn.
The company held an A licence in the Northern traffic area which allowed them to operate 12 vehicles, and they were authorized to operate three vehicles from the Metropolitan area. They ran a nightly trunk service of six or seven vehicles. engaged mainly in the conveyance of engineering products from the North East to London. returning with fruit and vegetables from markets in the London area, Tilbury and, sometimes, Kent. Because of the difficulties of trunk ' vehicles picking up loads in such " extremely congested areas," the company had received a large number of complaints from customers about delays and inconvenience which they had suffered.
Handing in figures and letters of complaint, Mr. Wardlaw said that some of the writers were willing to give evidence if the Deputy Authority so required.
Giving evidence, Mr. Stanley Spinks, managing director, gave an undertaking that if the extra vehicles were granted they would not be used on trunk services but would feed the existing trunk vehicles.
The application was granted with an amended user "collection of fruit and vegetables and the delivery of engineering goods to be carried on trunk services between the London area and the North East of England within 35 miles of base."