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TRANSPORT of wool, waste materials. I rags, animal products and allied goods from Glasgow to points throughout the United Kingdom posed problems for the Glasgow concerns involved, Mr. R. Mackenzie told the Scottish Licensing Authority last Friday. He applied for a new B licence for Robert Ramsay and Co., Ltd., and their associated subsidiary Arthur Morrell, Ltd., rabbit skin and fur specialists. The goods involved were mainly " dirty " and in some cases "offensive "—traffic which few hauliers wished to handle.
The company acted as brokers and as agents for the British Wool Marketing Board. The situation arose where wool had to be carried from their warehouse to other points, and it could happen that a number of firms in the same field were all sending vehicles to uplift small quantities. It was proposed that Ramsay and Co. should now handle these goods co-operatively, with greater economy to all concerned.
Mr. Robert Ramsay gave evidence that they acted as brokers and had occasion to deliver small part loads, while other brokers and dealers were similarly placed. By` taking a B licence, they could operate jointly. They proposed putting two C-licence vehicles on the B licence.
The application was adjourned until next Monday.
TAKE-OVER BID ADJOURNED AN application by James F. Guy and Son, of Haddington, East Lothian, to the Scottish Licensing Authority in Edinburgh last week to take over ,a fivevehicle B licence, previously held by James Scott, was adjourned. The Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, was told that the Guy family held financial interest in the Scott business and it was , now reverting to their, possession. They were seeking to extend the radius and in some cases to alter the licence conditions to conform more closely with their own fleet activities.
APPEAL DISMISSED
THEMinister of Transport . has dismissed with costs an appeal by Baxters Bus Services, Ltd., against decisions of the Scottish Traffic Commissioners, granting to Mr, John Carmichael a different terminal point of a stage service at Coatbridge, and new picking-up and setting-down points in the town.
SEPTEMBER REGISTRATIONS
GOODS vehicles registered for the first 1.–/ time during September, last, numbered 22,119, compared with 21,822 in the corresponding month of 1959, according to provisional figures recently issued by the Ministry of Transport. This represents an increase of 297 registrations.
ANTI.CONGESTION PLAN
1-1. A SCHEME costing nearly Lim. has been announced to deal with traffic congestion in the centre of Stourbridge. The aim is to segregate through-traffic.