Additional Conditions Granted to 12 Hauliers A PPLICAT1ONS by 12
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West Midland hauliers to add conditions to their licences to allow them to carry rock salt and road materials on instructions from D. M. Stevenson, were granted by the West Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. J. Else, last week. Mr. Else, at the same time, deleted two vehicles from the
B licence of Harry Holmes Ltd., and one vehicle from the B licence of Cookhill Transport Co. Ltd., because they had ceased to be operated.
On behalf of the applicants, Mr. D. G. Skelding said that all had standard conditions on their B licences enabling them to carry traffic for Stevenson. Negotiations had taken place between I.C.T. Winsford and Stevenson 'concerning the carriage and distribution of rock salt in bulk going to road sites and service depots, so that provision could be made for this traffic to be carried during the summer months, when vehicles working on instructions of Stevenson were little used. There had also been discussions between Stevenson and Breedon Cloud and Hill Limeworks with regard to the carriage of road-making materials to sites in Staffordshire and Warwickshire and on to sections of MI motorway.
The vehicles were all tippers which were heavily employed during the winter period, but which had a certain availability during the summer. Mr. F. Stringer, assistant manager of Stevenson, said that his company had on average some 250 to 300 vehicles working for it throughout the country, collecting and delivering solid fuels from most of the productive divisions of the National Coal Board. Both sales of domestic and industrial fuels had risen, and there was a difficulty in getting suitable vehicles to undertake the work.
Mr. Skelding then called representatives of the applicant hauliers: P. D. Barrs; R. H. Woodcock; Harry Holmes. Ltd.; R. P. Woodford; S. Harrison (Tam worth) Ltd.; Daisy Seal (Tamworth) Ltd.; Cookhill Transport Co. Ltd.; J. M. Burton; G. P. Seilar; M. Orpwood; W. E. and J. E. Howard; L. G. Gainham and N. A. Finn and Son Ltd.
Granting the applications, Mr. Else said that he was always anxious when called upon to grant licences for vehicles which would really be controlled by an agent and not by the operator; but he was satisfied that D. M. Stevenson must be a very reputable concern, otherwise the hauliers who already had the standard Stevenson conditions at the moment would not have wanted to continue working for them. He wondered how far Stevenson, as fuel distributors, were going to reach out into other fields.