Six A Vehicles for Cement Transport
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EIROVIDING documents and figures prove to be satisfactory, an application by W. Keens, Ltd., to add six vehicles to an A licence to carry bulk pressurized cement within 200 miles, will be granted by the Metropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. C. S. Macdonald.
Giving evidence last week, Mr. J. W. Keens said that his company held contract licences specifying 11 tankers for Tunnel Cement, Ltd., and four for British Industrial Sand, Ltd. The application was made because Tunnel Cement ware now using "Pressflow " wagons supplied by British Railways, to carry cement by rail, and the tankers would be used to transport from railheads to sites, the location of which changed from time to time.
There were large contracts in being in the Portsmouth and Southampton areas and the intention was for the vehicles to travel from London to the south with a full load on Mondays; to unload at the sites and then, for the rest of the week, to be employed between railheads and sites, returning empty for the week-end. It was absolutely impossible to hire such vehicles anywhere.