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Authority Misled, -Tribunal Told

12th February 1960
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

WHEN the British Transport CornrniSsiOn appealed to the Transport Tribunal in London, last week, against the renewal of a B licence with modified conditions to Mr. C. D. Owens, Mortimers Cross, Herefords, it was stated that the West Midland Licensing Authority had

been misled. •

Mr. G. P. Crowe, Tor 'the B.T.C., said that when Mr. Owens applied to carry soft fruit and new potatoes within 150 miles, the Authority allowed him to lead evidence given in support of an unsuccessful application for similar terms on an A licence. Nobody, however, had a transcript of the evidence at this hearing. arid there was confusion among all parties as to what had been said. During the hearing of the B-licence application, a railway witness was crossexamined aboutdifficulties in dealing with soft fruit, but it was not made clear that these did not apply to new potatoes. The Authority had therefore gained the impression that the Commission's assent to the carriage of soft • fruit by the respondent also applied to the transport of new potatoes.

Sir Hubert Hull, president, announcing the dismissal of the appeal, said that the Tribunal thought that it would be unfair to upset the decision. It would be highly undesirable not to uphold a grant in terms not induced by any irregularity by the applicant.

WEIGHT DIFFERENCES "GROSSLY EXAGGERATED"

THE British Transport Commission, in appealing against a substitution grant of two articulated vehicles for three rigids, had grossly exaggerated the difference in carrying capacity of the two groups of vehicles, Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon told theTransport Tribunal in London last week.

He was representing Baker's Transport (Southampton), Ltd., respondents to an appeal by the B.T.C. against a decision of the South Eastern Licensing Authority (The Commercial Motor, last week). Baker's had given up considerable flexibility by surrendering the rigids, he claimed. To the suggestion that vehicles of the company's A-licensed fleet were not fully employed, Mr. Samuel-Gibbon observed: "They would not have subcontracted more than f18,000-worth of work if their vehicles could have done it."

For the B.T.C., Mr. D. L. McDonnell had claimed that no increase in carrying capacity should have been allowed without evidence of need..

Decision was reserved.

TWIN-TONE BORN TRIAL

A TWIN-TONE horn, of German rt Bosch manufacture, is to be fitted to the main fire pump of Croydon Fire Brigade for six months' trial. Traffic in Croydon is so noisy and dense' that the traditiOnal bell cannot be heard.

If the experiment proves successful, Bosch horns will probably be fitted to all of Croydon's fire appliances.


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