Chemical " Laundry " Vehicle Bid
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THE main business of Thames Tar Products Contractors, Ltd., of Mitcham Common and Lewes, included a kind of laundry service •' of chemical solvents, Mr. C. R. Beddington told the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, in London last week.
The company were applying for a B licence authorizing a semi-low-loader articulated vehicle to carry plant machinery, drums, cables, boats, cablebuilding materials and steelwork within 200 miles of West Croydon.
Mr. Beddington said the applicants were distillers and refiners of bituminous materials. Haulage was a minor side of their business, roughly 25 per cent.
Customers sent solvents to them which were then cleaned and returned. They also purchased second-hand solvents to refine and resell. The vehicle was required to carry solvents in drums for which the semi-low-loader was the most suitable vehicle for this operation.
On the haulage side, his clients had found there were many jobs which they were asked to do, such as moving pieces of plant, for which a smaller vehicle would be more convenient.
Fifty per cent. of the vehicle's time would be used in connection with their own business, the rest of the time it would be used to carry other people's goods.
Mr. J. Oswald, for the B.T.C. (objecting), asked the Authority, if he made a grant, to say that the description "building materials in the terms was too wide.
Granting the licence, Mr. Macdonald said that the term " boats" would be deleted from the terms because of a lack of evidence supporting it. I4e conside;•ed that building materials and steelworks would be " lumped " together in the description "specialized prefabricated steel, concrete and brick products."