LONG-DISTANCE WORK FORBIDDEN.
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Sir William Hart, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, has refused an A licence to Messrs. M. Wolstenholme and Sons, of Oldham, the holders of what is called a hybrid B licence.
There was evidence in this case that a greengrocery busines was given up by the applicants because the demands for haulage were so heavy, , and that the call for long-distance wrnk was so great that Messrs. Wolstenholme went far and wide to find Sub-contractors, in Order to oblige customers who failed to find hauliers within the necessary radius. It would, it was stated, require three-shift working to undertake the long-distance operation which the A licence woad authorize.
Mr. H. Backhouse, for the applicants, claimed that the Enston onus was fully discharged.
Mr. P. Kershaw, for the L.M.S. Railway Co., contended that it was difficult to see how a haulage business could be properly carried on under a three-shift system. The applicants, he declared, wanted to come in on the crest of the wave of increased trade, Opposition to Railway Rates Increase.
Several references have been made to road transport during the appeal of the railway companies, before the Railway Rates Tribunal, for an increase of 5 per cent. in passenger and freight charges.
Opposing the application on behalf of the Aberdeen Fish Trades Association, Bailie W. P. Milne, the chairman, said that road transport was carrying more fish to Manchester and Liverpool than were the railWay companies, even at the time when they had amonopoly of the business.
In reply to a question from the president, Mr. W. Bruce Thomas, K.C., witness said that the trade preferred to send fish to London by road.
New Heat-treatment and Metaldegreasing Station.
Early in August a heat-treatment and metal-degreasing demonstration centre is to be opened by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., at the works of its subsidiary company, Lighting Trades, Ltd., at Earlsfielcl, London, S.W.18. Interest in modern salt-bath processes has grown so rapidly that a heat-treatment centre for the London area has become necessary, in addition to that at Oldbury, Birmingham. The installation will include a representative range of gas-fired, oil-fired and electric furnaces.
A demonstration of I.C.I. metaldegreasing plant -will also be staged at this centre to replace that at Greenwich.