OBJECTORS WITH 22 B-TO-A SWITCH GRANTED
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ALL six objectors to the application by Slaters Transport Ltd., of Kirbymisperton, for a 22-vehicle El-to-A switch withdrew their objections and made no appearance at the hearing before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Major F. S. Eastwood, in Leeds last week.
The application was granted after Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for the applicants, explained that they operated 15 tipper vehicles and seven tankers at present on two separate B licences, which would be surrendered. Slaters Transport was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Slater and Co. (Limestone) Ltd., who appeared on the normal user. The seven tankers were used mainly in carrying limestone for Slater and Co., who had five quarries within 25 miles of Kirbytnisperton.
Support from 11.C.1.
Representatives of I.C.I., at Billingham, and Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt, gave evidence in support of the application, the area manager of Limmer and Trinidad speaking of a particular shortage of tippers in the North Riding and South Durham.
532 It was also said that there would be a demand to be met by a plan which was going ahead to open up the port of Whitby—with the first boat expected to arrive in mid-March — following the Beeching plan to end the rail link with the town on March 8.
A detailed normal user was included in the application: goods to be carried for 10 named customers all within 100 miles of Thornton-le-Dale, including cement in bulk for ICJ., pulverized fuel ash for William Pepper and Co. Ltd., and road and building materials for Limmer and Trinidad. In addition, the normal user was for "fertilizers in bulk as required ".
After making the grant, the L.A. warned that he believed some of the company's vehicles were either operating overloaded, or their maintenance wanted looking at. He asked Mr. Campbell Wardlaw to pass on to Slaters Transport the point that a few days earlier some of its vehicles had been observed which, "to use a transport expression ", said Maj. Eastwood, "did not seem able to pull the skin off a rice pudding ".