New 'magician' joins meat hauliers
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• It cannot be suggested that any new aspirant to the field of meat haulage should automatically be excluded from its magic field. If I were to be satisfied by the objectors that the application should be refused then they would have to satisfy me more than with an ordinary application."
So said Mr. W. M. Levitt. Metropolitan deputy LA, when granting a new A licence to SAS Road Transport (Lewisham) Ltd., London, for two artics conditioned: "mainly meat and frozen foodstuffs within 200 miles-, on Wednesday.
Objections were .entered by John Miller (Smithfield) Ltd., Robertson Buckley and Co. Ltd., Union Cartage Co. Ltd., Mob o Transport Ltd. and J. Packer and Sons Ltd., all represented by Mr. J. Amphlett. and British Railways represented by Mr. Morgan
Miss E. Havers, representing SAS, said that it shared its premises with its associated company. A. E. Rnbson Ltd., which had its licence transferred from Oxford by Mr. Levitt on October 27 (CM October 311.
SAS was controlled by Mrs. R. M. Parsons and Mr. D. E. Kay,. both experienced in meat haulage—Mrs. Parsons had undertaken the administration and Mr. Kay the transport management of Kent Bros. Ltd. before setting up on their own in August 1968, said Miss Havers.
SAS had at present four vehicles operating under Contract A licence to the Fatstock Marketing Corporation. Other than this SAS was acting as a clearing house to over 20 other hauliers.
Mrs. Parsons had said in evidence that great difficulty was experienced in obtaining mechanically refrigerated units for transporting frozen meat, a shortage was common to all meat hauliers. Mr. King of UCC had contacted SAS recently asking for assistance in transporting meat from a ship in dock at Newhaven. When this request from an objector to the application was queried, Mr. King said that he personally was not objecting, it was just company policy to do so.
The UCC representative at the inquiry, Mr. C. G. Krupa, a management trainee, later said in evidence that Mr. King strongly denied saying any such thing.
Mr. Amphlett, cross-examining Mrs. Parsons, alleged that when she and Mr. Kay left Kent Bros. they took the majority of the custom with them. This was denied by Mrs. Parsons.
Mr. Amphiett asked if SAS. when experiencing difficulty in obtaining transport, had contacted any of the objectors. Mrs. Parsons said she had contacted none.
Mr. E. Ringer. manager of J. Miller and its associated company, W.M. Transport (loverkeithing) Ltd. Mr. FL Packer. of J Packer and Sons Ltd. and Mr. C. G. Krupa, all said in evidence that they had never been approached by SAS for transport. They all agreed that vehicles were often available.