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be healthy, but not wasteful, and in the public interest some livestock traffic should go by rail. These remarks were made by the Northern Licensing Authority last week when he refused to add a second vehicle to the A licence of Mr. R. Gargett, Nord Vue, Penruddock.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for the applicant, said that Mr. Gargett.had an Aand a B-licence vehicle. Work had risen greatly since the decontrol of meat, partly because British Road Services had withdrawn their livestock vehicles from Penrith and Kirkby , Stephen.
Mr. I. Kirkwood, a railway inspector,
said that there had been a drop of 45.3 per cent, in the use of local railway cattle containers because of low road haulage rates.
" Let them [the railways] bring their charges down," said Mr. Campbell Wardlaw.
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Increased pay awards for craftsmen will cost Hull Transport Department L/623 a year.
Stewart and Ardcrn, Ltd., are to capitalize £150,000 of reserves and unappropriated profits.
The American Ford Motor Co. have developed an experimental gas-turbine engine in their research laboratories.
The general manager of Salford Transport Department has been authorized to support the campaign against the tax on oil fuel.
A deputation of four engineers from the Hanover Tramways Co., headed by Direktor Dr. Ing. Fritz Lehner, has visited Reading Transport Department.
A new British Standard covers sizes of plain metal bearings. Published in five parts, it may be obtained from the British Standards Institution. 2 Park Street. London, WI, at a total price of LI 7s. 6d.