Partial B-to-A Switch Granted
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WHEN G. N. Ricketts and Co., of TV Ewenny, Bridgend, appealed to the Transport Tribunal in London last week against the South Wales Licensing Authority's refusal to grant the transfer of five B-licensed vehicles to their A licence, the Tribunal allowed the appeal to the extent of two vehicles only. The president, Sir Hubert Hull, ordered that the normal user should be for livestock, agricultural requisites, produce, implements and tiles.
Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for Ricketts, said they had two vehicles on A licence, authorized to carry steel, tinplate, tiles and farm machinery from South Wales to London, the Midlands and North. The B-licensed vehicles were subject to " vexatious " conditions and, apart from the need to rationalize these, the appeal was based on substantial new traffic, in particular the carriage of fertilizer for There was not a shred of evidence, he said, that the traffic ought to be carried by any other haulier; there was no intention to increase Ricketts' steel traffic, merely an essential desire to integrate the I.C.1. traffic with their other work.
Objecting for the B.T.C., Mr. J. M. Timmons said the evidence supporting the application had been extremely threadbare and the Licensing Authority had been perfectly justified in refusing it.