McKelvie Application is Again Adjourned
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THE hearing was continued at Glasgow last week of the application by James McKelvie and Co. (B. M. and P.), Ltd., of Barrhead, for 30 vehicles and 30 trailers for " steel products and accessories for Pressed Steel Co., Ltd., Linwood, to ports and assembly plants in Great Britain."
Mr. James McKelvie, managing director, said the company had been moving early production at Linwood by short-term licence using Albion Reivers. He regarded these, with trailers, as preferable to articulated vehicles because of their greater carrying capacity.
They were to take Rover, Ford and Volvo bodies and components and spares to assembly plants as well as to ports for export. There would be some South to North traffic, although the bulk would flow from Scotland. He understood that British Railways would handle 80 per cent, of the traffic and McKelvie 20 per cent.
Car bodies would be carried inside a new design pallet, produced specially for this traffic, with steel frames and wooden floors, resting on the vehicle chassis. Their experience suggested a need for 30-ft. vehicles plus 22-ft. trailers, giving a carrying area of 45 ft. of platform space.
Mr. W. F. Quin, the Scottish Licensing Authority, asked whether any •of the existing fleet would meet the new traffic, and Mr. McKelvie indicated that the vehicles were already over-employed and that generally speaking they were not suitable for this specialized traffic.
Mr. Quin said he would like to know what B.R. and B.R.S. could offer before making any grant.
He adjourned the case until a date in March.