" Artics" Authorized for Flexibility . A BOUT £17,600 was paid in
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a year by R. W. Edwards and Sons, Cam royd Street, Dewsbury, in hiring vehicles to supplement their haulage fleet, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, was told at Leeds. They had four rigid vehicles, two on A licence and two on, B licence, and they wanted to change them to articulated outfits for greater flexibility. Mr. R. A. Edwards, a partner, said their traffic was specialized—carrying yarn from Dewsbury to carpet manufacturers in the Midlands and the south. At present they had to switch loads at their depot because of the B licence radius. If articulated outfits were used the tractors could be changed. They did not want to increase their carrying capacity. Granting the application, Maj. Eastwood said he sympathized, and wanted to enable Edwards to run their fleet in a proper manner. More and more hauliers were copying the British Transport Commission in using articulated outfits.