Contract A Applications Will Be Published More Prominently-L.A.

4th May 1962, Page 94

4th May 1962

Page 94

Page 94, 4th May 1962 — Contract A Applications Will Be Published More Prominently-L.A.

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Keywords : British People, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

HAULIERS who enter into contract 1 1 hiring arrangements with quarry owners and others without carefully considering the matter, were warned by the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, at Bristol last week that they might find themselves in difficulties.

Mr. E. A. Hall, of Frome, Somerset, who applied to add a 4-ton tipper to carry quarried materials to non-railconnected sites within 75 miles, told the Licensing Authority that he entered into a contract with a quarry firm to carry material for them. They undertook to pay him £850 a year; but so far, he said, he had received only £80, although the contract had six months to run he did not intend to do any more work for them. He had not used his contract licence since January.

Answering Mr. T. D. Corpe, who appeared for certain objectors, the applicant said he had instructed his solicitors to take proceedings against the firm for money said to be outstanding.

Mr. T. H. Amblin, managing director of W. Viney. Ltd., transport contractors,, who also objected. said that the quarry firm referred to had made three or four applications in the past two years simply because hauliers could not earn enough money at their contracts to keep themselves. The existing transport companies had no difficulty whatever in meeting all the quarry owners' requirements.

Mr. Nelson asked that a note should be made that no more licences should be granted in respect of this particular firm without full inquiries. In future any application for a contract A licence for the firm must be published in Parts I and II of A's and D's.

The applicant produced three letters from firms who supported his application, one of whom was a concern mentioned in the course of an inquiry at Bristol the previous week when Mr. Nelson had strongly criticized the large number of hauliers who had worked under contract for the firm in the past two years.

Mr. Nelson, granting the application for an additional vehicle, but restricting its use to one company, told the applicant: "You should have been much more careful before you bought a second

vehicle after your unfortunate exper enee." There would probably be a It more of these cases coming up, he sarb "We have heard again today whet young men have entered the haulag industry in this way only to get then selves into difficulties."

The following day Mr. Nelson agai referred to the matter, when he told director of another quarry compan supporting an application for a tipper t a firm of tarmacadam contractors tin in future all contract A licences would t published in Part I of A's and D's.

ROAD-RAIL-AIR STATION FOR U.T.A.

PREPARATION of the additional si for a new all-services terminal i Belfast for the Ulster Transport Authoril has now commenced. Modifications at being made to the former G.N.R. ( Great Victoria Street Station so th when the project is complete there will 1 full interchange facilities 'between roa rail and the feeder services linking wit the airport.

An extensive area is being opened ti to serve as a bus station which wi supplement the Authority's busy Oxfoi Street terminal.

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