Jones' Dual-purp
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ose-vehicles Bid 1N order to avoid empty running and to relieve pressure of work on its existing fleet. A. S. Jones and Co. Ltd. applied for five articulated vehicles on A licence at Liverpool on Wednesday before the North Western deputy Licensing Authority. Mr. A. H. Jolliffe. These units would have tanks slung beneath the platform for the carriage of bulk liquids, while demountable tanks or flat traffic could bc carried on the platform.
Mr. 1. Edward Jones, for the applicant, said that the company considered the underslung tanks more suitable for its business than Portolite tanks. The company was trying to meet increased demands from its customers and was faced with the need of dealing with return traffic. It wanted to carry general goods for its associated companies and bulk liquids with the new vehicles.
In evidence, Mr. H. C. Rippon, a vehicle design consultant, said that he had been concerned in devising a unit for Jones to enable the company to obtain more versatile tanker-flat operation. Eventually a tanker of 2,000-gal. capacity had been reshaped and fitted underneath the platform, so that liquids could be carried at the same time as ether traffic.
The company wanted to avoid the empty and wasted mileage associated with conventional tankers, said Mr. T. R. Jones, general manager. It was interested in cross-Channel shipping and would use demountable tanks in services to Ireland and the Continent. The application was a new venture and Jones could not say whether or not the vehicles would be successful. Some of the associated corn-, panies wanted relief with the carriage of flat traffic.
Mr. Jones told Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon, objecting for Sutton and Sons (St. Helens) Ltd.. that he considered it a desirable object for any operator to try to avoid dead mileage. British Railways Board also opposed the application. The case is to be continued.