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nECISION on an appeal which was stated to raise the question as to what an applicant had to prove to justify additional tonnage on an. existing A licence, when he offered to surrenderequivalent tonnage under a. special A licence, was on Tuesday reserved until yesterday. The Transport Tribunal were hearing in Edinburgh an appeal by the British Transport Commission against the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority's grant to Charles Alexander and Partners (Transport), Ltd, Aberdeen, of six vehicles of 24+ tons unladen and five .articulated units of 144 tons unladen on a A licence under which two articulated outfits of 5-1 tons unladen were already held. Nine vehicles of 321 tons unladen and four " artics of 7 tons unladen on special A licence were to be surrendered. The vehicles were based on Aberdeen and the normal user was the carriage of fish and general goods to Elgin, Inverness, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland, England and Wales. The aim was to modernize the fleet of 125 lorries.
Mr. W. Cowan, Q.C., for the B.T.C., submitted that it was not a sound proposition in law for the holder of special A and open A licences to claim that he was entitled, without proof, to surrender special-A vehicles in favour of ordinaryA vehicles. Mr. Hubert Hull, chairman of the Tribunal observed that by the substitution Alexander's would suffer some kind of restriction, whereas there was no restriction on the special-A vehicles.
SEPTEMBER OUTPUT
PRODUCTION of goods vehicles in September totalled 29,672 units. of which 7,871 were exported. Figures for September last year were 23,612 and 8,333 respectively. A total of 917 public service vehicles was built last month and 317 were exported. Comparative figures for a year earlier were 929 and
250. .
BY-PASS STARTED
WORK is to start at once on the London-Colney by-pass, near St. Albans. It will be 21 miles long and form part of the London-Glasgow trunk road A6. A new bridge will carry the road over the River Colne. Cost of the by-pass is estimated at £400.000.
KERRY'S ACQUISITION THE machine-tool business of Messrs. Oldfield and Schofield, Halifax, is being purchased by 'Kerry's (Great Britain), Ltd., for £200,000. The acquired company are stated to have sufficient orders in hand for full production during the next nine months.
HIGHER PAY
WAGES of employees of the Milk Marketing Board covered by the transport agreement have been raised by 10s. a week.