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Applicants Ploughed Back Their Profits
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APPLICANTS who told Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, that they had ploughed back profits for 1959 into their business, and spent £10,000 on new vshicles, were granted an additional vehicle of 4+ tons on A licence at Bristol this week.
The4-Authority was told that the bulk of Work done by Messrs. Harris and Miners, Widdecombe-in-the-Moor, the applicants, was for Candy and Co., Ltd., fireplace manufacturers. They delivered the fireplaces all over the country and brought back clay from Peterborough and Wareham as return loads.
An independent objector withdrew and Mr. J. MacLaren, for the British Transport Commission, who objected, said that he was satisfied that a case had been made for an additional vehicle provided that the normal user included the words " other than china clay."
The grant was made for a user covering general goods, mainly clay, clay products, tiles. tyres and fireplaces, normally within 450 miles.
ELECTRICS REPLACE THF HORSE
ALL the remaining horse-drawn milkdelivery vehicles operated by East Durham Co-operative Dairies, Wingate, are to be replaced by■, battery-eleetrics supplied by Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd., Gateshead,
The conversion in respect of 43 electric vehicles, represents a cost of £40,000. The dairy have 80 rounds in the city of Durham, Sunderland and neighbouring colliery towns.
SHEFFIELD LOSE bit.
IN the four weeks ended December 5, 1 1959. following a transport strike in Sheffield. 1m. fewer people used the city's buses and trams compared with the corresponding period of 1958. Receipts declined by £11,000.