Wright's Application Adjourned
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WHEN Wright Bros. (Wolverhampton), Ltd., applied to Mr. W. P. James, West Midland Licensing Authority, on Tuesday to transfer eight tractors and eight trailers from special-A to ordinary A licence, the hearing was adjourned so that more detailed information about their earnings could be produced.
It was stated that the vehicles had earned £14,748 in the year ended June 30, but Mr. R. A. Sneath, general manager of the company, explained that about half of them had been off the road during that time.
Two had been transferred to Bristol but wcre delicensed because it was found uneconomical to run them. The licence for a third at Carlisle had been revoked and it was inoperative until brought back to Wolverhampton, while a fourth had undergone rebuilding.
The British Transport Commission objected. Mr. lames said that he would have to consider amending the proposed normal user. This specified Great Britain, but no journeys to Scotland had been detailed.'
WORKERS ARRIVE TOO EARLY
BECAUSE the present bus service was getting them to work too early, 20 employees of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., asked the Western Traffic Commissioners at Bristol, on Monday, to authorize a new service.
A spokesman for the group, Mr. George Aggatt, a planning engineer, said that sometimes they were at work 25 minutes before time.
The operator of the service, Mr. John Sparks, said that he had been running uneconomically for a year and was trying to incorporate the service with one to a new school at Filton, in order to make it pay.
Refusing the application, Mr. S. W. Nelson, chairman, said that if it were granted there would be excessive facilities to the factory.