Transfer of 39 Vehicles from to A Licence Refused
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rl0 northern hauliers, mainly coneernedwith tipping work, were unsuccessful when they applied at Manchester, last week, to have their B-licence fleets transferred to A licence. They claimed that they were at a disadvantage to newcomers operating under special A licences.
The hauliers were Mr. T. Hancock, 3tretford, and H. Evers, Ltd., Ancoats, Wanchester, both represented by Mr. I. Edward Jones. On their behalf, he ;aid that hauliers in their circumstances seeded protection against special-A :ompetitors.
At present they were rigidly tied to :ommodities, customers and distances, md had no facilities for obtaining backoads, so their A-licensed rivals were able o quote lower rates.
Distances Increased
In evidence, Mr. Hancock said that luring the past seven or eight years, .ustomers' requirements had taken his 'chides over longer distances, much of he work carrying coal inwards. If he were able to carry outwards a 15 per ent, increase in traffic would allow him 3 quote competitive rates. He wanted 7 vehicles to be transferred to A licence. Mr. G. H. P. Beames, objecting for he British Transport Commission, said here was no evidence that customers ad suffered, or that they would benefit rom the change. If the applicants' roposition were accepted, every haulier :Rh a B licence who did not do :-licence work would be able to switch ) A-licence operation.
Mr. Edward Jones replied that the ormal user applied for was exactly the tine as the B-licence conditions.
Refusing Mr. Hancock's application, Ir. F. Williamson, North Western icensing Authority, said it was obvious sat he wanted to carry over distances nd for customers outside the present -licence conditions, and there was no vidence that the traffic concerned was at already catered for satisfactorily. :condly, Mr. Hancock had said the idea as his own.
19 Objectors to Transfer There were 18 objectors in addition 0 the B.T.C. to the application by Evers, ho wanted to put 22 tippers on licence, with a normal user of " road instruction plant and materials, excavam, demolition and building plant and aterials, ores, chemicals, sulphur, solid el, salt phosphates, metals, rubbish and aste, all within 100 miles of base." lternatively, they sought similar contions for the B licence.
Mr. Edward Jones said they did some licence work and if an A licence were anted six vehicles would be kept on 5 B licence. They were bulk carriers d the real reason behind the applicain was the many short-term applicant that had had to be made between
May, 1957, and December, 1958. In order not to complicate matters, an application for two additional 8-wheeled tippers would be temporarily withdrawn.
Mr. S. McGibbon, company secretary, told •Mr. A. C. G. Rothera, for the East Midland objectors, that the carriage of coal was at present restricted to 12 miles. He said that after a short-term licence was granted in September, 1957, for clearing a ship-load of American coal from the docks, a second was .obtained last April to collect coal from Derbyshire.
In September, an application to take coal to Manchester from the East Midlands resulted in the grant of eight vehicles because the National Coal Board wanted Evers to act as a clearing house.
Mr. Rothera submitted that at the hearing Evers undertook to use vehicles through the Nottingham and District Hauliers' Association, but after getting the grant they decided to place all subcontracting direct. Eighty per cent, of the East Midlands coal hauliers had "coal as required" on their licences.
Application Frivolous After Mr. Beames hagl described the application as frivolous and impertinent, Mr. Williamson advised Evers to consult their legal advisers and the application was withdrawn.
Evers were also seeking a short-term licence to carry 600 tons of chrome ore from Manchester Docks to Worksop. A supporting letter from the shippers said that the balance would be sent by rail but as much as possible should go by road.
Mr. Beames submitted there was no reason why the ore should not all go by rail. Mr. Rothera added that operators were in court who actually had vehicles available to do the work.
Refusing the application, Mr. Williamson said there were ample facilities.
1450,000 FROM IRAN
riRDERS from Iran to the value of \-1 over £450,000 were received by Leyland Motors. Ltd.. in January. Messrs. K. Shishmanian Vatan, the company's agents in Teheran, who ordered a number of Leyland Comet dumpers worth £80,400 two weeks ago, have now demanded 40 Super Comet lorries. The National Iranian Oil Co. have asked for six Super Hippo lorries additional to 60 ordered three weeks ago. The first 60 are to be operated as tankers and the remaining six as stake-sided lorries.
DRIVERLESS TRUCK ON SHOW
AN electrically powered driverless works truck will be on show at the Electrical Engineers Exhibition at Earls Court from March 17 to 21. The truck follows a predetermined route by signals from a radio frequency oscillator picked up from a metallic tape laid on the floor. By relaying the tape the route can be
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