Tribunal Told of Traffic Losses
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A PPEALING against the Northern
Licensing Authority's refusal to grant them 10 additional articulated outfits and six platform lorries on their A licence, Siddle C. Cook, Ltd., Consett, Co. Durham, told the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday that outside hauliers were taking Work away from them by carrying loads from the Consett Iron Co.
• "'Haulage contractors arc being brought in from far and near because of the company's inability to get increased vehicles," said Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw.
The British Transport Commission objected.
Mr. Wardlaw said that for some years Cook's had been try:ng to increase. their A-licence fleet on the strength of traffic from the iron company. Ilicy were one of the earliest contractors to serve the works, and were now having to sub-contract a substantial quantity of traffic.
Mr. Hubert Hull. president, said the Tribunal had made it clear that a contractor sharing out work and not doing it himself with his own vehicles was not entitled to rely on that work as justifying a grant of additional vehicles.
Mr. Wardlaw: "But it is traffic which we want to do and ought to do, and we say is our own traffic."
The hearing continued on Wednesday.
FIVE WIN HONOURS
ORE than 1,200 candidates sat for al the two 1957 examinations of the Institute of Transport. Between them they worked 3,542 papers.
In part 2 of the associate membership examination, honours winners were R. Bowie (Bulawayo), W. Yule (Glasgow) and K. Daynes (Jesselton). Honours winners in the graduateship examination, parts 1 and 2, were P. Pieroni (Hull) and F. J. Witham (London).
SLOUGH SAFETY EXPERIMENT
A DISCUSSION on the Slough twoIn. year safety experiment will be included in the proceedings of the National Safety Congress, to be held at the Central Hall, Westminster, from October 15-17, The Minister of Transport will open the congress.
STAGGERING GROWS
AGROWING response to the campaign to stagger working hours in London was reported on Tuesday by the Committee for Staggering of Working Hours in Central London. They said that 83 concerns employing 15,000 people had so far altered starting and finishing times in Central London.
• DERV PRICE DOWN id.
A REDUCTION of d. a gallon in r-k the wholesale price of dery was made by Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd. and other leading oil companies on Wednesday.