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a dispute with the Corporation's planning committee over the latter's intention to ban all but one or two bus services from the shopping area in the centre of the city.
Mr. 1ar Patey, general manager of B.O.C., told members of the planning committee thatif all traffic were banned from the area the company would fall into line, but while motor cars were allowed in, the same facilities should be given to buses.
buy larger caravans. It was now illegal to tow vans more than 8 ft. wide and 22 ft. in length. When larger than this they had to be carried.
A director of the company, Mr. J. Oates, stated that it would not be possible for them to have the transporter on C, licence as they carried vans for other people, in addition to their owo business. At present they had a Land-Rover which was used for towing vans under 22 ft., but they had to refuse to take the larger varieties. Whenever possible they hired
been concerned with the towing of caravans, and now they wanted to transport them. This was a completely different thing.
The application was supported by three witnesses from the caravan industry, who all told of difficulties in moving the large, popular makes, some of which were 38 ft. in length. Mr. Ockwell said that sometimes he could not sell these bigger vans as he knew he would not be able to get transporters to move them. At present Hoyland and Stanley. Ltd., of Cheadle, were their nearest carriers, and only on odd occasions could they help.
Mr. J. R. Bowers, managing director of the Summerdale Caravan Co., Ltd., pointed out that during the past year the demand for larger caravans had risen so much that now 75 per cent, of their output were vans over 22 ft. in length.
The North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, said that a case had obviously been made out, and he granted the new vehicle, authorizing it to carry within 50 miles of Blackburn.