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Big Fight Against Extra Rail Vehicles A VERBAL battle which lasted all
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day and into the evening, rook place before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at York, on Monday, when applications by the L.N.E. Railway Co. for additional vehicles were opposed by numerous hauliers. These included members of A.R.O. and the C.M.U.A.
.Pig traffic to bacon factories—of which the L.N.E.R. was stated to have a monopoly, except in the case of pigs conveyed by producers or curers in their own vehicles—figured largely in the case for extra vehicles, as also did the question of substituting motors for horses. Decision was reserved.
Vehicles for Six Bases.
The applications were in resPect, of the following bases, the number of vehicles which it was sought to acquire,. under. A • licences, being shown in parentheses:— • ',York (three vehicles with trailers and seven other vehicles), Harrogate (four vehicles and trailers, and a special trailer for certain types of traffic), Melton (two .vehicles and trailer), Ripon (additional vehicle and trailer, and another vehicle insubstitution), Kirbyraeorside (one vehicle) and Leybnrn (one vehicle).
• _ With regard to the L.N.E.R. bases at Kirbymoorside, Ripon, Mahon and. York, it was stated that.. additional vehicles were required Partly in conse . . quence of the increase in pig traffic to the bacon factories. Approximately 70,000 additional pigs would, this year, be handled by the Ybrkihire bacon factories, and of this number 50,000 would be carried by rail.
At present, on certain days, there was a serious disturbance of the general cartage at some bases, owing to the withdrawal of vehicles to carry pigs.
Mr. F. G. Bibbings, secretary of A.R.O., Yorkshire Area, for objecting members of that Association, submitted that the agreed-charge arrangement for pig transport constituted a serious_ form of rate-cutting. Commenting on a statement by a railway witness that it was impossible to say how much of the increase in pig traffic would be handled at each of the four railway bases in question, ' Mr. Aibbings suggested that, if that were so, no railway official could indicate the exact numbers of additional vehicles required.
• The York application was hotly contested. Five of the objectors represented by Mr. Bibbings gave evidence in support of the contention that existing facilities were adequate, and two Of. these witnesses gave concrete facts of :traffie lost to the railway company.
Mr. Bibbings submitted that public interest alone demanded that the whole of the York application should be refused. For months and months, the L.N.E.R. had mercilessly opposed applications for additional tonnage by operators in York and district, on the ground that existing facilities were in excess of requirements. Moreover. he.e was definite evidence that the railway company was deliberately taking traffic from other operators.
As to that part of the York application whereby the L.N.E.R. was seeking to acquire four Vehicles and a trailer for maintenance purposes, the situation could be adequately met under the new regulation, which provides for the temporary substitution of relief vehicles for vehicles under repair. • Will Horses be Discarded ?
Mr. F. T. Gray, assistant to the district goods manager, L.N.E.R., Leeds. said that the Harrogate application for mechanical horses involved the withdrawal of seven horse teams. He could not give a definite undertaking that the horses would be disposed of.
Mr. Bibbings submitted that the application was unfair, because there was no definite assurance that the horses would be discarded.