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No Urgency, Says Mr. Hanlon: Short-term Cases Adjourned

2nd October 1959, Page 61
2nd October 1959
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-2,AUSE he did not consider there as any urgency in the matter, the hem n Licensing Authority, Mr. T. Hanlon, at Newcastle last week, irned two applications for short-term xs. Mr. F. Milton, who represented applicants, told Mr. Hanlon that :y Dixon, Ltd., Carrville, Co. am, wanted to operate 10 vehicles short-term licences, in substitution 6 vehicles at present on contract A Derek Crouch (Construction), Ltd. . Walter L. Logic, Dixon's manager, that there had been a substantial le in opencast coal-mining traffic. ne time, between 1957 and 1958, d had 40 vehicles carrying opencast Vehicles were not now being fully tyed and could not be utilized for work. An application for a subve B licence had been made, and ! event of that being granted, the rn would give Derek Crouch -ence over other customers.

Output to be Doubled Cogle said that his company was ing increasing demands for transfrom 'sand and gravel and quarry inies. One of them was marketing , form of cement for road making. output was increasing and the conmpected to double it soon.

only supporting evidence was a from Raisby Quarries, Ltd., but the substantive application came o the Licensing Authority he would e to produce witnesses.

Hanlon said that he had to be :d that the matter was one of y. The work was not seasonal and :ence was not required for a par:• task. In the circumstances he not grant a short-term licence, but adjourn the matter.

H. V. Maycock, a Lanchester -, then applied for a short-term o to cover one vehicle. Mr. Milton tat an application for a full-term : had been published. At the present 4r. Maycock was sub-contracting s to Raisby Quarries, and to Dixon, Ltd., and there was a lot rk arising which was outside his t licensed radius. This was causing ties in sorting out where different vehicles could go. Mr. Maycock said that he wanted the licence particularly to enable him to carry materials to the road workings, on the Catterick by-pass extensions.

Mr. Hanlon said there was nothing to show that there was any urgency. He adjourned the application, but told Mr. Maycock that he could apply at any time before the hearing of the substantive application on the ground of urgency.

BIG LOADS ON FLYOVER

IE Chiswick flyover, linking the Great West Road, Miildx, with the Cromwell Road extension, was opened on Wednesday and has been built to be able to bear abnormal loads of 180 tons. During construction, a bridge beam was tested to failure at a load of 236 tons.

In Moscow, work has begun on what will be that city's first flyover, near Krymskaya Square.

JULY OUTPUT DROPS

HAVING been above the 7,000 mark in each of the two preceding months, production of commercial vehicles in July fell to 5,509, which was approximately the figure for July, 1958. Remarkably, the exports in July thia year totalled, at 12,677, only one fewer than the figure for


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