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and delivery work could not be amended to cover normal carriage of goods without republishing, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, ruled at Liverpool last week. Mr. J. Barke, Stoneycroft, Liverpool, was applying for a 3-tonner on a new B licence, with a condition of collection and delivery of general goods
• within 40 miles."
Mr. J. Edward Jones, for the applicant, said that an objection by .British Railways would be withdrawn if the application were amended to "general goods, 10 miles, excluding furniture." Mr. Barke had four A-licensed vehicles and the application, in effect, sought the replacement of a B licence which had been allowed to lapse in 1958, when two • of his sons went into the Forces. Although the objection had been withdrawn, said Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for British Railways, he agreed with the Authority that a collection and delivery vehicle was only a feeder to a 'trunk service, and the amendment altered the nature of the work.
The amendment involved considerations which differed from the original application, said Mr. Jolliffe. It should be republished,, but the grant would be made without a funher hearing if there was no objection, he added.
TWO MORE " ARTICS" FOR II, L. WALKER
AN A-licence variation, to replace two rigid vehicles of 7+ tons by two articulated units of 18 tons, was granted to H. L. Walker, Ltd., Thornaby-on-Tees, now a subsidiary of J. and A. Smith of Madiston, Ltd., at Stockton, on Monday.
Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, was told by Mr. A. Darley, manager of H. L. Walker, that -their policy was towards complete articulation. The aitn was to make semitrailers interchangeable between the two
fleets. _ The units would come within the Construction and Use Regulations, he stated. and objections by the British Transport Commission. T. Sunter, Ltd., and Siddle C. Cook, Ltd., had been withdrawn.
Nine of Walker's 26 vehicles on A and special-A licence are now articulated.
FARMERS FIGHT M.M.B.
UNTIL the Milk Marketing Board offers better terms Cheshire farmers will not join in a new scheme to collect milk by tankers. Last week, at Malpas, a meeting of 60 farmers sent a resolution to the National Farmers' Union asking for support.
The scheme, due to start on October 1, was planned to operate through a Liverpool dairy company. Some 15,000 gallons of milk a day were to be collected from over 100 West Cheshire farmers. The farmers would have to provide coldstorage tanks, costing about £1,000 each, at their farms.