North Western L.A. Grants Nuttall Switch Application
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order to obtain maximum interailability from the company's fleet, Nuttall and Sons Ltd., Heywood, ied for a common A licence for 11 des at Manchester last Friday. The nal user sought was: "Cotton, textiles, -made fibres, chemicals, steel sheets, hinery, paper, reels and drums of e, rubber products, animal feeding s, chickens, works' rubbish; Lanca:, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Midlands, Co. ham, Northumberland, North Wales, land and London area ". The North tern deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. I. JoIliffe, granted the application.
:r. A. W. Balne, for the applicant, that at present two vehicles were on tract A licences with Mutual Mills and Mutual Mills (Filament sion) Ltd., but these licences would surrendered, Four rigid A-licensed s would be replaced by articulated its, but this would not result in any tional carrying capacity. The greater of Nuttall's business was with Courtaulds Ltd. and the Mutual Mills organization. Su15-contracting would not be affected by the application as the company would not be obtaining any extra vehicles, said Mr. Balne.
Mr. J. Nuttall, director, said that the contract vehicles had been fully employed. With the introduction of the extra articulated vehicles some trans-shipment of consignments would be avoided. Mr. P. Anderson, of Vitafoam Ltd., Middleton, supported the application and stated that his company's account with Naftali for the first three months of this year was twice what it had been during the Same period in 1962. The applicant dealt with all Vitafoam's export traffic and production was increasing. Evidence was also given by representatives of Greengate and Irwell Ltd., Mutual Mills Ltd. and Mutual Mills (Filament Division) Ltd.
Mr. F. Clayton, objecting for British Railways Board, said there was not enough evidence to justify a grant. British Road Services also opposed the application_