Rising Timber Payments Justify Grant
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A FTER hearing evidence that pay ment for work in connection with the felling and haulage of timber for one customer had risen in a year from £3,000 to nearly £8,000, and for a second customer from less than €.300 to over £3,000, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, added two vehicles to the fleet of
• Messrs. J. Turner and Sons, Charley, at Preston, last week. liritish Road Services and the railways objected.
Mr. I. A. Dun.kericy, for the firm, said that they were specialists in the haulage of timber and had 14 vehicles and a trailer on A and B licences. In addition they operated a vehicle and trailer under contract-A licence for Superwood Products, Ltd., Burscough. It was sought to transfer the contract vehicle to. an open A licence and to delete the trailer.
Superwood Products were not nesv. customers and their work had increased enormously, because they had installed a new sawmill at Burscough with a capacity of 400 tons per week. They also no longer imported timber, but purchased forests.
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well as providing transport. An open A licence was required so that the vehicles could carry goods on journeys to the forests. Mr. Dunkerley submitted that Horsley Smith and Co., Ltd., who had reduced their C-licence fleet, could supply loads.
Mr. T. B. Atkinson said the objectors would not press their cases if the normal user were restricted to timber haulage. Mr. Lindsay granted an A Licence for the vehicle with a normal user of "timber as required."
Messrs. Turner also sought to add an articulated outfit to their B licence to carry timber for Superwood Products and Horsley Smith, The B.T.C. withdrew their opposition after the applicants undertook not to carry for Ferry Trailers, Ltd., Adam Lythgoe, Ltd., and W. Lawrence and Sons. Ltd., or to haul solid fuel or perform household removals.
BIG BUS DEPOT FOR SALE
THE former tram and bus depot at Elderslig is to be sold by Glasgow Corporation to the highest bidder. The floor area is about 5,600 sq. yd. and the whole premises cover 9.000 sq. yd.
Recording a verdict of "death by misadventure," the coroner said the mishap was rare.