Summer porridge for prisoners?
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• In Manchester on Tuesday the firm of H. J. Lea and Sons Ltd., Sandbach, was granted an additional B-licensed 6+-ton bulk tipper to be used mainly for the carriage of oats.
Mr. J. A. Backhouse explained to the NW deputy LA that the vehicle would be used in the company's own business as corn and agricultural merchants and that Morning Foods Ltd. required oats to be transported in bulk from farms for blower discharge at its Crewe factory. The vehicle had a removable roof and tailboard so that bags of porridge oats could be loaded for outward deliveries. Mr. W. G. Richards, Morning Foods' transport manager, said it supplied the oats to all HM prisons during the summer, because it was too busy at other times.
Mr. Jolliffe granted the addition with the same conditions as the firm's other vehicles but omitting authority to carry for British Soda Co., Sandbach, to meet a British Railways' objection.