Francis Come Back:
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THEMetropolitan Licensing Authority last Friday adjourned until today the hearing of an application by N. Francis and Co., Ltd., 5 Parkholme Road, DaIston, to add eight vehicles to their A licence. Mr. R. D. McKay, secretary and general manager. said that the vehicles would temporarily solve the company's problems created by increased business.
Francis delivered goods received from the North and Midlands, and had a reciprocal arrangement with 0. Wray and Co., Ltd., with whom they had been associated for 30 years.
There were 47 regular parcels rounds a day. These were being supplemented by eight more.
The usual peak periods of business from April to June and from September until Christmas had become extremely heavy. Mr. McKay said that earnings from 839 old customers between April, 1955, and January, 1956, A28