Short-term for Q4 life-rafts
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• Wilsons Fuel and Haulage (Hadfield) was granted a short-term A licence in Manchester last week so that the carriage of life-rafts to the new Cunard Q4 would not be held up. Wilsons was applying to add one 5-ton flat to its A licence but three firms were still objecting to the application. Discussions were to have taken place but Mr. C. Wilson, a partner in the firm, had been prevented attending a road-rail negotiating committee meeting because of an accident.
A customer witness Mr. E. Bourboneux, general manager of the Frankenstein Group, told the public inquiry that it had obtained a contract to supply the new Q 4 with these rafts and it was going to need a lot of extra transport urgently.
Mr. A. H. Joffe, North Western deputy Licencing Authority, granted the short-term licence with a normal user similar to its full term A licence.
Wilsons also applied to vary its B licence. Previously it had carried for the Whiteside Group, which had now gone into liquidation. It was granted a substitute condition: "Goods for Sun Pat Products Ltd. and Maconchie Bros. (Hadfield) Ltd. within 110 miles." These two companies were formally in that group and will continue to trade under their own name within Rowntrees Ltd., which has taken them over. This substitution will also apply to its A-licences.