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week advised an ancillary user to employ a haulier. Mr. William Brown, sole partner of Messrs. Will iam Brown and Sons, Crieff, timber merchants, asked for a B licence so that he _could bring hack loads after delivering his sawn timber to Enp. I a nd.
The Authority said: " I know clearing stations will be glad to get some
. one to lake their stuff away. They will -Offer you cut rates, and yot.rwill take it, because you would be travelling light amtway." Applicant denied this.. . Unless strong reasons. 'could. be brought against it, continued . the Authority, the 'obvious course Was for
Mr. Brown to employ a proper haulage contractor who would be able to take return loads to carry his goods to England.
[he application was refused.
MINISTER ADVISES BID REJECTION
THE Minister of Transport has told 1 the Road Haulage Disposar-Board and the British Transport Commission that he would not be justified in directing them. to accepta tender for unit 6012, consisting of 498 Londonbased meat vehicles.
As reported in The Commercial Molar dated July 8, the B.T.C. recommended that the tender be refused, whereas the • Board took the opposite viev,-. The matter was referredto the Minister in accbrdance with Section 3 (8) of the 1953 Act..
HUMBER BRIDGE PLANS: WORLD'S -BIGGEST? ' TECHNICAL officers of interested I local authorities have rnct at Hull to consider preliminary drawings for the proposed Humber Bridge. As envisaged now, the structure would be the longest-span bridge in the world.
It is proposed to build the bridge in the vicinity of Hessle on one bank and Barton on the other.
The current scheme is for a suspension bridge 4,500:ft. long, with two carriageways each 22-ft. wide, and an8-ft. footpath between." The cost, it is thought, will be about fl5m.
OIL FUEL CONSUMPTION UP 14% nEL1VERIES Of oil • fuel for road transport rose by 14 per cent.— from 671,302 tons to 767,506 tonsduring the first six months of -thg year compared with the first half of 1954. This was partly attributable to the effects of the rail strike, state the Petroleum Information Bureau.
Consumption of motor spirit increaseclj by 6 per cent. (2,973,342 tons compared with 2,811,317 .tons) and this rise was almost entirely accounted for by greater sales of Premier" grades. Standard grades sold Slightlybetter. Commercial. users continue -mainly to use standard grade, but their demands for premier grade rose by nearly 10 per cent.
PNEU MO-CYCLIC GEARBOX ATTRACTS ORDERS •
nVER 7.000 Pneumo-Cyclic gear boxes. most of them for assembly in Leyland chassis, have begn ordered from Lv land Motors, Ltd. Operators in Bombay, Copenhagen, Glasgow. Madras and Sydney have ordered over 500 of thoc units, whilst a further 400 arc needed for installation in buses cC Belgian and Dutch manufacture. with Leyland runnMe units.