McAlpine witness gives evidence
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• A witness from Sir Alfred McAlpine and Sons Ltd. attended a public inquiry in Manchester last week and was instrumental in two tipper operators obtaining B licences to carry hardcore and aggregates from Lancashire quarries. A. T. A. Caulfield and D. Platt of Bolton were both applying for 41-ton tippers to operate to and from non-rail connected sites within 35 miles.
Mr. H. S. Campion, manager of Turn Quarry, near Shuttleworth, said McAlpine was engaged on the construction of M62 and the Scammonden Dam near the Lancashire/Yorkshire border and he could employ another 20 vehicles daily now and would require 30 during the summer months. He could give the applicants 50 tons a day, six to seven days a week, at least until June 1969.
In order to meet objections from James Booth (Bolton) Ltd. and four others, the applicants agreed to the conditions being confined to McAlpine and four other named customers.