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TOLD that there, was a shortage of
transport at Cheadle, near Stoke-onTrent, the . West Midland Licensing Authority; Mr. W. P. James, remarked last week that he would have expected to see many witnesses supporting an application by a haulier from that district. He was hearing a request by Mr. Thomas E. Kent, Cheadle, for a new B-licence to carry furniture within 40 miles.
Mr. Kent said he was a smallholder, but he wanted •to take: up part-time haulage work because Altera was a shortage of facilities in the area. At present his, lorry was on C. licence.
Answering Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways and B.R.S. (Pickfords), Ltd., he admitted that it was a Platform vehicle which would have, to be fitted with a canvas Frame. I He said-he had kept no records, but he was eonstantly being asked to undertake removals. An antique dealer • was supporting the application. .
Mr. Atkinson submitted that there was no case for 40 miles, although Pickfords would not object to furniture removals within 10. miles' as . their vehicles were nine miles. asivay. .
Mr. James granted licence for furniture removals within „10 miles and sale-room and' antique furniture within 12 miles.
BEDFORD DISPLAY FIRE BRIGADE VEHICLES
A BEDFORD hydraulically operated turntable ladder will be shown for the first time at Torquay, on September 29, during the annual conference of the Institute of -Fire Engineers and Chief Fire Officers. The Bedford, one of five on display, has a special 189-in, wheelbase chassis, with a 300-cu.-in. 133-b.h.p. petrol engine.
Also being shown for the first time will
be a Bedford type Et water tender mounted on a 4-ton 132-in, wheelbase forwardcontrol chassis 'with a 133-b.h.p. engine. Another water tender will have an allalloy body on a 120-in, wheelbase chassis, and there will be a four-wheel-drive tender which has undergone successful cross-country tests.
Completing the group will be a tender with an alloy and plastics body.
OVER 3m. TONS OF PETROL USED
CONSUMPTION of petrol in Britain during the first half of the year totalled 3,146,435 tons, of which 56.7 per cent. (1,783,841 tons) was of premium
grade. Demand for oil fuel reached 991,853 tons.
Comparisons with the first six months of 1957 are vitiated by the existence then of rationing, although there was a 30.7per-cent. increase in the consumption of all kinds of petroleum product in the first half of this year.
Commercial consumers used 175,008 tons of premium-grade petrol, and 604,049 tons of standard grade from January-June this year.