Increased Demand for Tippers
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[THOUGH his vehicles and plant did a great deal of site work, there was ncreasing demand for tippers to carry ds on the roads, said Mr. J. E. okes. of Alsager, when he applied for it vehicles on B licence, before the rth Western 1,icensing Authority, j.-Gen. A. F. J. Elmslie, at MacclesI on Tuesday. The normal user ght was " Road making, excavated building materials, contractors plant, I tools within a radius of 50 miles". 'he applicant said in evidence that ?er cent of his business was plant ng and contracting, but he was doing dental haulage, mainly for custers whom he supplied with plant. He I 24 machines and lorries and his awl turnover was between £50,000 and 1,000.
iupporting evidence was given on talf of two builders, a civil-engineering npany, and a landscape contracting mt. They all wanted Mr. Brookes to ry consignments on the road, in addining them about the various
sites. Some of them had suffered delays in obtaining transport.
Mr. A. Coins, objecting for British Railways, considered that a 50-mile radius was too large, and that it should be reduced to about 20 miles, but the Authority granted the application as applied for.
Fishermen's Bus Service
PERMISSION was granted on Monday by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners, sitting in Aberdeen, for Mr. J. S. Simpson, Rosehearty, to operate a night-bus service for the benefit of North East Scottish fishermen.
Mr. P. Simpson, Jnr.. said his firm operated a coastal service and sanction was sought to operate additional journeys between Fraserburgh and Garvanstown and between Garvanstown and Macduff. with the normal service times as required by the fishermen according to the arrival and departure of their vessels. Up to now, said Mr. Simpson, a number of fisherman had been taken home by private hire and the object was to get a service stabilized.
Mr. A. Wiseman, a fishing boat skipper for almost 50 years, supporting the application, said a large number of Garvanstown fishermen operated front Fraserburgh and Macduff. Their boats returned to port at night and when there was no transport to take them home they often had to lie in the boat in wet clothes after a hard day's work at sea.
Objecting to the application was Mr. RIB. Currie, for Alexander and Sons (Northern) Ltd., who said that if granted it would make possible a blanket service at any time of the day or night, which might affect Alexander's inland service from Banff to Fraserburgh.
Chairman of the Commissioners, Mr. A. B. Birnie, said there was a case for permitting some of this traffic for the sake of the fishermen. The application was granted with the limitation that it applied to all three starting points, Fraserburgh, Macduff and Garvanstown, from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m.