Liquidator's Vehicles Taken Over
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DECAUSE Messrs. D. W. Free and Son, -1-0 Salisbury Road, Marlborough, were acquiring part of the business of Mr. F. Naughton (the liquidator of F. Whittock, Ltd., Bath), Free were applying to add three vehicles to their A licence and six vehicles to their B licence.
Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, was told this at Bristol last week and Mr. T. D. Corpe, for 'Free, added that if the variations were granted the vehicles would be deleted from the liquidators A and B licences.
Although they already had a substantial fleet, Mr. Martin Free stated that his firm would not be able to cope with the extra work which they intended to take over without additional vehicles. The liquidator told Mr. Nelson that he had been appointed on May 1, 1959. His job was not to operate the haulage business but to keep it alive until it was sold, he added.
The application was opposed by the British Transport Commission, but Mr. Nelson made a grant subject to revision of the normal user. It should read "mainly solid fuel and corn in bulk within 125 miles from Marlborough," he stated.
The B-licence variation was granted with conditions unaltered, except for a change of base.
"ROCKET" BOXES
ROCKET-SHAPED telephone boxes, Nt. with no corners or edges, have been installed in the city centre by Liverpool Transport Department for direct contact with the undertaking's main switchboard. The aim is to facilitate traffic control.