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• Mr. F. Cumeta, a director of C and A Plant Services Ltd., Chadderton, was told by the North Western deputy LA, Mr. G. Newman, in Manchester on Wednesday that if he wanted to be successful in his application then he would have to present his case properly. The application was for a continuation of a B licence, replacing two flat vehicles with a low-loader to carry tractors and other items of contractors plant, within 25 miles of base and occasionally to Liverpool and Leeds. There were five objectors.
Mr. J. A. Backhouse, for the applicant, said that C and A Plant engaged in selling, repairing and hiring out contractors' plant. The low-loader had been operated on C licence for the past two years but the increase in the size of equipment carried had made necessary a switch to B licence. The applicant was, prepared to restrict the weight of plant carried to nine tons and to items for which they were sales agents. Mr. Cumeta said that 60 per cent of the work done by the low-loader would be in the form of delivery for his company. After delivery the customer would be encouraged to use hauliers for transportation between jobs although the applicant company said that it would provide this service if the customer was in need, as a follow-up to sale.
Mr. G. H. P. Beams, for W. L. Roebuck Ltd., H. H. Crutchley Ltd., Robert Walker Haulage 'Ltd., and H. R. D. Maconochie Ltd., established that one of the vehicles to be replaced was in fact obsolete and that the other had not been used for 14 months. He said that the application bore no resemblance to a case.
For Pickfords Ltd., Mr. J. S. Lawton said that low-loader cases were known to be contentious and that this had been no case at all.
Mr. Newman said that he thought it would be better for a new application to be entered. he renewed the B licence without modification and for one vehicle only.