Seven Vehicles Removed from A Licence
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"THE Licensing Authority depends, to a very large extent in the exercise of his duty, on hauliers answering questions that are put to them in application forms, truthfully ", the Metropolitan Licensing Authority: Mr. D. I. R. Muir, said when he deleted seven vehicles from an A licence belonging to a London ' haulier on Tuesday.
Mr. Muir had called an inquiry under section 178 (I) (d) of the 1960 Road Traffic Act, to consider whether or not to revoke or suspend the nine-vehicle licence of Ongar Motors and Transport Co. Ltd.. because of a false declaration made in an application for the renewal of. the licence.
• For Ongar Motors, Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon said that because of various• changes of personnel within the company over a prolonged period, there had been a certain amount of muddle. So far as seven of the vehicles on the licence were concerned, his client realized that there were grounds upon which the vehicles could be deleted. But he contested the removal of the two remaining vehicles which were in fad being used by the company.
Giving the history of the company, Mr. Samuel-Gibbon said that after the managing director had retired •through ill-health (he hadl subsequently died) there had been a re-allocation a ditties within the company' and the transport manager had been responsible for preparing a renewal application form that was lodged in April of last year. At that time no final decision had been made about the replacement of the seven vehicles which, were specified in the original licence. The L.A.'s office ought to have been informed when the vehicles had ceased to be used or had passed out of the possession of the company. but this was not done.
Mr. J. H. Garrett; transport manager of Ongar Motors, said that he realized when he made the renewal application that seven of the vehicles were no longer being used by the company. He had telephoned the L.A.'s office about this