Railways Lose Coal to Road Transport
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A DESIRE to transfer some of their traffic from rail to road transport, because of rAerratic coal deliveries by British Railways, was expressed by Mr. W. Cornfield, secretary of the Padiham Industrial Co-operative Society, Ltd., at a meeting of the North Western Licensing Authority at Blackburn, Ultimately, he said, this might mean a loss of some £3,000 a year for the railways.
Mr. Cornfield was supporting an application by Mr. L. Stephenson, of Cronkshaw Street. Burnley, to extend a normal user in respect of a B vehicle to carry coat within 50 miles of base instead of within 15 miles.
He said that if the application was granted there was a possibility of about 60 tons of coal a week being transferred from rail to road transport during the colder months of the year. Sometimes, he alleged, they paid carriage on wagons which were supposed to contain 10 tons of coal and when weighed the load was about 13 cwt. short.
The North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. IL Jolliffe, granted a short-term licence in the terms of the application until the time when a substantive grant was made.