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Nation-wide B Link-up Sought in Scotland
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MHAT appears to be a unique group VV of applications to operate a large number of B-licensed vehicles with virtually "A-licensed conditions" has been made by the House of Fraser. Ltd., and certain of their subsidiary and associated companies in Scotland, writes Norman H. Tilsley.
House of Fraser, Ltd., of Glasgow, have made an application for a new B licence to operate 40 vehicles to carry goods of wry description for no less than 26 named associates (including such wellknown companies as Binns, Ltd„ and Harrods, Ltd.), "any distance." They undertake to remove all specified vehicles from C licences they and another associated company, Wylie Lochhead,
Ltd., hold. '
This application, standing alone, is substantial enough, but the Scottish As and Ds contains an application by Binns, Ltd., to vary a B licence they hold in the area to carry furniture and household effects in Great Britain, and goods of any description for House of Fraser, Ltd., plus similar named customers that House of Fraser wish to carry for.
Yet a third application comes from Patrick Thomson, of Glasgow, who wishes to vary the conditions on his B licence for precisely the same named customers, and an almost identical application has been made in the Northern part of area by J. and A. Ogilvie of Aberdeen.
On the face of it, these applications appear to be an attempt by several large companies, who are in some way linked, to carry for each other "anything, anywhere." The information in the As and Ds is rather scant and only in the first
application by House of Fraser is any number of vehicles given.
Understandably, the transport manager of House of Fraser, Ltd., would not comment when I spoke to him on Tuesday, but I am told that the Road Haulage Association in the area are "very concerned," and are looking into the matter on behalf of their members.
Likewise, British Road Services are taking an active interest in the matter because, as one of their officials in Scotland said to me, "some of the companies mentioned are in Southern England, some are in the West and one covers the whole of the North East."
Full details of the applications are given in Expansion Trends in Haulage, on pages 455-6 of this issue.