Cattle Haulier Given Wider Radius
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A DOUSLAND livestock haulier, 1-1 Mr. F. G. Trathen, applied to the Western Licensing Authority, last week, to extend his radius of • 60 miles for one vehiele to 200 miles, and from 35 to 60 miles for his other vehicle..
Applicant said that he had been in haulage since before the. Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, and was making this, his first application, because he got constant requests from many regular customers to come outside his radius. He was afraid that by having to refuse those requests he might lose some of his local work.
After evidence had been given by :two witnesses in support of the application, Mr. W. B. U. White, transport. manager • of White • and Goodman favistock), Ltd., objectors, said that his concern had 14 vehicles, and he had never been approached by anyone from the Yelvertbn area who said he had clinically in getting transport.
he Authority, in granting Mr. 1 I athen the extensions, said that,he was satisfied that the applicant was not seeking simply to provide more grist for his mill, but that his object was to sahsty continued requests from old customers and to give them the service the% required.
" V5OM. SHOULD BE SPENT ON ROADS" 111-' Britain was to have a road system I eapable of meeting the needs of the national economy, at least £750m. v,ould have to be spent over the next 10 years, Mr. Wilfrid Andrews, 'Chairman of the Roads Campaign Council, said in Birmingham on Monday.
To foot this bill, interest and repaymeats over a 30-year loan' would cost, at the most, £45m. a year, or a ninth of what the Government took in road taxation, he said.
A conference of representatives of Dundee. Angus and Fife local authorities decided on Monday to recommend to their councils that they should agree in principle to 'co-operate in the construction of a road bridge over the Tay.
1 he lord Provost of Dundee said that according to reliable estimates, a bridge providing a 30-ft. roadway could be built for a sum not exceeding £3m.
FIRST 44-SEATER MAKES LAST JOURNEY
-FITE first 44-seat single-deck bus to I operate in Britain, last week made its last journey, from Gateshead, to the Norvood depot of the London Transpoi t Executive, where it will be kept for e%-entual preservation in the proposed National Transport Museum. Designed, built and operated by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., in 1933, tire bus is also claimed to he one of the first to have an underfloor engine and a hydraulically operated clutch. It was described in The Commercial Motor on December 3. 1954,