20 Car Transporters for B.R.S.
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OURTEEN hauliers withdrew their objections to an application by British Road Services, Coventry, for an A licence for 20 car transporters at Birmingham, last week, after the terms of the normal user sought had been modified.
Mr, G. H. P. Beames, for B.R.S., said that they had wished to carry cars as required, but agreed to restrict their work to the Humber, Standard-Triumph and Vauxhall companies, and not to carry for B.M.C. or Jaguar.
For the objectors, Mr. J. Foley Egginton stated that they would leave the number of vehicles to be allowed to the judgment of Mr. W. P. James, West Midland Licensing Authority.
Mr. G. P. Henshaw, sales manager of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., said that they could employ 30 more transporters in Luton. The company were supporting an application for 10 transporters made to the Metropolitan Licensing Authority.
Witnesses from Standard Triumph (Sales), Ltd., and Humber, Ltd., each said that they could employ at least 10 more transporters. The railways, who had carried a third of Humber's export cars, were said no longer to be interested on the ground of economy.
Mr. James granted the application but said that it might be necessary to review the matter later because of the many similar applications, and difficulties in obtaining new transporters.
REGULAR RAIL SERVICE FOR VAUXHALL
THE first regular rail-delivery service for Vauxhall cars and Bedford light vans is now operating between Luton and Scotland. On April 4 a special train loaded with 50 vehicles for Scottish dealers set out on the 360-mile journey, arriving at Falkirk 12 hours later. There will be a weekly shuttle service by three similar trains.
Anglo-Scottish Car Deliveries, Ltd., of Luton and Edinburgh, who handle the bulk of Vauxhall and Bedford deliveries to Scotland, will operate the service, and have taken over a disused railway station at Chiltern Green, about two miles from Vauxhall's Luton factory, as a loading point for the trains.