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Sought Adjournment Remixed Grant
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ACOMBINATION of unusual circumstances at a Bristol inquiry before the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, last week resulted in a Gloucestershire haulage partnership, Goulding Bros., Stroud Road, Nailsworth, obtaining a new B licence for a 31-ton vehicle on letter evidence only.
Mr. E. P. Goulding told the Authority that he was seeking an adjournment because his witnesses were unable to attend and his solicitors, Mr. T. D. Come and Mr. I. R. D, Jenkins, were both engaged elsewhere.
In reply to Mr. Nelson, he said that an application for an additional A vehicle was withdrawn in August after a meeting of the road-rail negotiating committee, on a British Transport Commission suggestion that a B licence would be more -appropriate. The conditions now applied for were more or less agreed.
. Mr. Nelson commented that there was a large backlog of objections and it was a eity the case could not be settled. Why were British Railways pursuing the objection and had not sought a further roadrail committee meeting since the publication of the B licence application on August 16?
Mr. R. A. Webb, for British Railways, replied that their fear was that the use of an additional B vehicle would free the applicant's three A vehicles to do more .long-distance work.
Mr. Goulding gave an undertaking that no greater volume of goods wOuld be carried -for the customer concerned by the use of the B vehicle; it would be employed for greater convenience in collection and delivery.
Mr. Nelson pointed out that revocation or suspension could follow the breaking of a statement of intention, and British Railways withdrew the objection. The application was granted with goods for Newman, Hender and Co. restricted to 20 miles.
EIGHT WHEELS FOR SIX THE haulage company, John Barrie
(Contractor), Ltd., of Glasgow, was last week granted an eight-wheeler to replace a six-wheeler by the Scottish Licensing Authority in Glasgow. The managing director., Mr. -John Barrie, said that although there would be an increased carrying capacity of a ton, the application wasintended to improve the efficiency of the fleet.
CONGESTION, PLANS REJECTED
PLANS to reduce traffic congestion in the city centre, submitted to the traffic committee of Newcastle upon Tyne City Council by Tyneside Chamber of Commerce, have been rejected by the council. The proposals included oneway traffic over the Tyne and High-Level bridges—the two main bottlenecks in the city.