"Special A" Vehicles Abstract
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Traffic, say B.R.S.
STRONG evidence has been given by British Road Services of their intention of retaining traffic after they have sold vehicles to hauliers. They have begun to use before the, Licensing Authorities the argument that new traffic carried in a vehicle run under a special A licence must have been abstracted from them or from other hauliers.
It was unsuccessfully advanced last Friday before the Metropolitan Licensing Authority.
Daimler Secure £500,000 Orders
nRDERS worth £500,000 have been
received so far this year by Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd. This sum is made up of an order at £320,000 for 70 complete single-deckers from the Auckland Transport Board, New Zealand, and others for 75 double-decker chassis fr om numerous municipal undertakings at home, including Dundee, Leeds, Swindon, Coventry and Staly bridge.
• The New Zealand order followed a visit to this country of Mr. Peter Coutts, managing director of Coutts Transport Vehicles, Ltd., Daimler main distributors in that country. The buses will have Saunders-Roe bodies and each Will carry 66 passengers.
LONDON ROAD IMPROVEMENTS A DEPUTATION from the Metro
politan Boroughs Standing Joint Committee met the Minister of Transport, Mr. J. A. Boyd-Carpenter, on Monday, and urged the introduction of legislation to authorize the resumption of road-maintenance grants to highway authorities in the county of London. They also asked for more road improvements.
Mr. Boyd-Carpenter said that to determine priorities was one of his most difficult problems, but the special needs of London would be carefully considered. Mr. W. G. Murnford, of Dunstable, applied for an additional vehicle on an A licence. Apart from his A licence, he had last autumn obtained a special A licence for one vehicle.
In that short time, said Mr. Ralph Cropper, for Mr. Mumford, this vehicle had already worked up a service of three trips per week, carrying for the hat trade between Luton and Lancashire. Mr. Cropper submitted figures of earnings showing that it was working to capacity.
Wrong Support?
Mr. R. Beddington, appearing for British Railways as well as B.R.S., contended that this traffic must have been taken from either his clients or from other hauliers. It was not right. he argued, that evidence of abstracted traffic should be used to support an application for an extra vehicle on the A licence.
Mr. Cropper pointed out the absurdity of this argument. B.R.S., he said, refused to pass on customers or goodwill with the sales of transport units. How, then, could they complain if the purchasers found their own traffics for the vehicles they had bought? If B.R.S. took that attitude, he asserted, they were acting contrary to the spirit of the 1953 Act and would be trying to thwart its purposes.
Garrett and Wright, Ltd., and R. Barrett, Ltd., both of Luton, also objected.
Mr. Mumford's application was granted.