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ASUBSTANTIAL error was made by the Eastern Licensing Authority when he estimated how to relieve pressure on the overworked A-licensed fleet of Mr. C. P. Warner, Bury St. Edmunds, the Transport Tribunal were told in London on Monday.
Mr. M. Dunbar Van Oss said Mr. Warner had applied to add two articulated outfits and a rigid vehicle to his A licence, but the Authority had granted only the rigid. Mr. Warner was appealing against this decision. If only one vehicle was to be granted, an articulated outfit would have been of greater value.
Mr. Van Oss pointed -out that the sig7 nificant thing about the application was that when goods reached Bury, they had to be distributed to individual farms, which was one of the duties causing overworking of the fleet. A great deal of late loading had to be carried out in order to complete the work.
The president, Mr. Hubert Hull, remarked that Mr. Warner could not ask for a sufficient number of vehicles to carry goods out of Bury and then seek an additional number of vehicles to take goods back. Mr. Van Oss replied that he realized one could not obtain extra tonnage by saying "I have a lot of stuff coming from outside." The appeal was opposed by the British Transport Commission, R. L. Prakard and Sons, Ltd., Bury, and Roudham Transport, Ltd., East Harling, Norwich. The B.T.C. cross-appealed, saying that no grant should have been made at all. Mr. Van Oss said British Railways liked nothing better than articulated outfits, yet they did not want anyone else to have them.
The case was adjourned until Monday.
QUICKER ROAD BUILDING
A SYSTEM of renting rights of way /A over land proposed to be acquired for road building was suggested on Monday by Sir Owen Williams, an eminent architect and civil engineer. His object was to enable the routeing of a new road and the acquisition of land to be completed years ahead of construction.
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