B Licence Would Give "A" Freedom
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WHEN Mr. G. R. Nicholas, Kelsall, VV near-Chester, applied on Monday to Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, for a B licence to carry general goods within 50 Miles, Mr. Edy/ard Jones said on behalf of the haulier objectors that a • grant in • these terms would be equivalent to that of an A licence.
Mr: D. Salmon, for the applicant, said that as Mr. Nicholas was a local general carrier, it was almost impossible for him to bring witnesses. The variety of his traffic and customers made it difficult for him to find anyone with a regular need for his services.
Applicant had been in business since 1914 with horses, changing to motor vehicles in 1934. His present B licence was limited to 15 miles. Many old customers wished him to carry to places such as Burnley, Osw-estry, Southport. Stoke and Stafford.
Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for the British Transport Commission, who objected with five private hauliers, said that the applicant was asking to serve the whole of Lancashire.
Mr. Lindsay was not satisfied about need for an extension of radius.
RIVAL CLAIMS INQUIRY?
HAD the time come for a thorough investigation of the rival claims of road, rail and inland water transport? This question was asked.hy 'Mr. R. J. Holcombe, transport manager of Crane, Ltd., when he addressed the Industrial Transport Association last week.
_ Referring to the Six Nation Common Market Treaty (signed in Rome this week), he said that within four years signatory nations would be obliged to recognize each others' diplomas and other specialized qualifications. May we sincerely hope that professional special qualifications of traffic and transport managers will be appreciated and included in this scheme?" he asked.
After an initial 12-15 years, any worker from the signatory countries might take employment, or set up this business in any of the other countries besides his own.
COACH DRIVER SENT TO JAIL A SENTENCE of a year's imprison/A ment, and disqualification from driving for 10 years, was imposed at Birmingham Assizes, on Monday, on a driver whose coach was involved in an accident in which five miners were killed. The driver was John Stanley Ballard, Sycamore Road, Nuneaton,. who was found guilty on five charges alleging that he caused the death of five passengers by driving at a dangerous speed. He had pleaded not guilty in each case.
Ballard's coach' collided with • a stationary straw baler as he rounded a bend at a speed which he alleged was "about 32 m.p.h. or 33 m.p,h." Hedenied a suggestion that he was doing 50 m.p.h.