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Extra Tonnage to Recover Traffic?

25th December 1936
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Page 23, 25th December 1936 — Extra Tonnage to Recover Traffic?
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

AN application by a haulier for additional tonnage, in order to retrieve traffic which he had lost as the result of an insufficient fleet, raised protests before the North-Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at Liverpool, last week.

The application, which was by Messrs. Offley Bros., Oak Grove, Whitby, Wirral, for an additional 5-ton vehicle and 2-ton trailer, was based on an increase of work for Messrs. Meade, King and Robinson, and Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd. It was stated that, owing to Messrs. Offley's extra work for these two undertakings, they had been obliged to relinquish a large proportion of their traffic for two old, customers, and they required the tonnage under discussion in order to relieve the situation.

Mr. Basil Nieid, for the railways, disputed the submission that the applicants' vehicles were unique in that part

of the country, and declared that the work of the other two customers was insignificant. Messrs. Meade, King and Robinson had, he went on, admitted that they could secure transport facilities from two other sources. No evidence had been given by the ShellMex .concorn, and an increase in that company's work had not been proved.

Mr. V, R. Shepherd, for A. E. Handscomlae and Co. and others, described the Application as " curious." It went considerably farther than any previous application and should not be granted. The applicants should have sub-contracted the work relinquisheaa Mr. Henry Backhouse, Jun., f r Messrs. Offiey, declared that the applicants were theonly operators in the Win-al who had vehicles adapted to carry oil tanks in accordance with• the Regulations. There were no rail facilities for this work in the district.

Decision was reserved.


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