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LICENCE granted four years ago for school meals within a 10mile radius had since been varied 10 times at intervals of about four months without serious opposition, Mr. J. H. E. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, was told at Sheffield on
Monday, • Proctors Transport, 1.td., Sheffield, applied to extend the B-licence conditions of a 1-ton van and three 10-cwt. vans to "general goods within 40 miles of Sheffield General Post Office." Decision was reserved.
Mr. A. Goss, for the applicants, said that no one else operated vehicles of this type in Sheffield and it was impossible to hire. The vehicles delivered newspapers, toys and fancy goods, and finished their work by I p.m., but the restrictive B-licence conditions preVented the full use of the fleet.
Proctors had nine vehicles on A and special A licence and 10 on B licence. Some of the A-licence vehicles, working for George Bassett and Co., Ltd., and Cross and Blackwell, Ltd., had to be loaded in the early afternoon to make deliveries next day. To free them for other work these vans had to be unloaded and later reloaded at Proctors' depot while B-licence vehicles were standing idle.
Mr. J. H. Proctor said that earnings per ton of unladen weight had risen from £654 in 1954 to £823 in 1955, but because more small vehicles were operated, they had fallen to £782 last year. In 1956 7,301 jobs were completed, compared with 4,201 in 1955, and there were more than 150 regular customers.
Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways, said that the grant would free A-licence vehicles for other work, and a general parcels service could be developed.
Mr. E. Baker, for four haulier objectors, claimed that Proctors' flourishing business had been built up to the point of unnecessary competition. The daily parcels service to all districts within 40 miles of Sheffield run by Tufnells, Ltd., with 29 A-licence vans, would be affected.
COACH RALLY IN LONDON
N view of the changed fuel position, I it is now proposed to hold the British Coach Rally as a one-day event in Battersea Park, London, on Sunday, May 19. The event, which had previously been cancelled, is being organized by the Passenger Transport Joornal.
POSTERS VERSUS CONGESTION
LATEST move in the Minister, of 1–+ Transport's campaign to reduce congestion at rush hours is to have over 3,000 posters put up at railway stations in the London area. "If enough passengers would alter their working hours backwards or forwards by as little as 15 minutes, much of the problem would be solved," says the poster.