£17,000 Rise Impresses Mr. Quin
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FIGURES which showed that gross I turnover had been increased by £.17,000 during 1959-60 impressed Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, when D. M. Smith (Transport), Ltd., made ' a successful A-licence variation application at Glasgow last week.
They sought to add two articulated units of 71 tons and two semi-trailers of 51 tons, and surrender a 41-tonner. Mr. J. Law, for Smith, said that sub-contracting during the period rose by 110,000 and earnings from Smith's own vehicles by 17,000.
The smaller increase was because saturation point had been reached by their own fleet, said Mr. R. M. Alston, a representative of the company. They had recently been asked by A.E.C., Ltd.,
to deliver worn vehicle. parts to Southall, Middx, and return reconditioned parts to Scotland.
This was new business, stated Mr. Alston, who confirmed that there was no intention to transfer the fleet to articulated operation.
Numerous witnesses, including representatives of Telcon Magnetic Cores, Ltd., Chapelhill, the Lanarkshire Bolt Co., Ltd., and a Barrhead bath-manufacturing concern, supported the application, Objection was registered by the British Transport Commission, and Mr. A. Beattie, for them, who spoke of express rail services from Mossend to the Midlands, claimed that a grant would cause abstraction. .