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Son applies to take over business
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A licence bid by the son of a Wiltshire operator who had his licence revoked almost two years ago has been adjourned to enable him to prove that he is now solely In charge of the business.
In January 2001 the Western Traffic Commissioner Philip Brown revoked the licence held by John Patrick Black, trading as Pewsey Metals, because of maintenance problems and VED
irregularities (CM 11-17 Jan and 25-31 Jan 20011. A subsequent licence application by Black was refused.
The OTC said that In June a vehicle operated by John Patrick Black was impounded, before being returned to a finance company.
Shortly afterwards Black's son. John Gerald Black, also trading as Pewsey Metals, had applied for a new two-vehicle licence before Deputy Traffic Commissioner Alan Bourtet at a Cheltenham Public Inquiry. He said that one of the two vehicles he planned to operate was the impounded vehicle.
The DTC said that he had to make sure that this application by John Gerald Black was not a "front" for his father.
John Gerald Black said that his father had now retired due to ill health and he had taken over the business, which had been scaled down to about a fifth of what it once was, Pewsey Metals owned the vehicles and he now owned the company. There would only be one vehicle on the road at any one time, the two vehicles being used in rotation, one being used while the other was serviced. The servicing would be put out to contract.
Maintaining that his father would have nothing to do with the business, Black said: "I have had problem with my father all my life, wit people thinking I'm like him.
Adjourning the hearing tint January, the DIG said that h required documentary evi dence of the transfer of th business from Black's father' name, the registration docu ments for the two vehicles, an bank statements showing tha £4,200 was readily avallabk