B.R. Would Not Lose Any Traffic"
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A FTER assuring British Railways that ri'they would not lose any traffic, Mr.
J.: E. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, granted an application for a R licence to Dunscroft Haulage, Ltd., Bootharn Lane, Dunscroft; Doncaster, at Sheffield last week. The application involved the surrender of a contract-A licence.
Mr. T. Severn, a director, stated that they wanted a R licence. for vehicles of 41tons and 31tons, to carry coal arid coke' within 25 miles for Bee Bingham and Co., Ltd., Doncaster, Thrutehley. and Co., Grimsby, and Wadsworth. and Co., Barnsley..
Dunscroft Haulage also wanted to carry coal, red shale, sludge and filter cake for the National Coal Board, within five miles.
One tipper was operated . under contract-A licence with Bingham, but as this work was decreasing, Mr. Severn said that they wished to surrender the licence. The two vehicles Were at present on short-term licence and had been doing work for the National CoalBoard. As a result of many requests from -the Board the substantive application had been lodged.
For the British Transport Commission, Who objected, Mr. J. F: Wrottesley said that as the company wished. to operate within 25 miles for'Thrinehley, witnesses should have been produced. A representative of. Bee' Bingham submitted that they distributed mainly by rail: About 95 per cent. of thefr traffic was conveyed in this way.
There was no point. in the contract licence continuing so long as the vehicles were allowed to carry 5 :per cent. of their work, he said. The railways Would suffer no abstraction as they had: never, carried this truffle. Mr: J. Shore, a railway lieensing clerk, said that they were quite capable of carrying all the traffic for 'which DunScroft wanted the two units. 'They carried coal within 25 miles of the area and had .E1 substantial service to Scunthorpe: Granting the application, Mr. Randolph said that as Binghana's road traffic had never gone by rail there was no poSsibility of .abstraction. As the contract-A vehicle was to be surrendered the IWO remaining ones Would be doing the work of three units. He was not satisfied with regard to Thrutchley, and refused this part of the application.