Piekfords Refused Replacement s TWO applications by B.R.S. (Pick'. fords), Ltd.,
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for 15 additional vehicles and a trailer (384 tons) on A licences to replace vehicles withdrawn from service for repair or overhaul. were refused by the Metropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority, on Monday.
One application was for a new A licence for six vehicles to be based at Nelson Terrace, Islington, and the other for an additional nine vehicles and a trailer on an existing A licence operative from Long Lane, London, S.E.I. The applications were heard together.
Objectors to the Islington application were Hay's Wharf, Ltd., John Huston and •Co., Ltd., Otway and Golder, Ltd., Hatcher Bros., Ltd., and S. J. Meads Transport, Ltd. The Long Lane application was opposed by A. Miller (Haulage), Ltd., as well as by Hay's Wharf, John Huston, and Otway and Golder.
The applicants suggested that Regulation 15 of the Goods Vehicles (Licences and Prohibitions) Regulations, 1952 (which deals with the temporary replacement of authorized vehicles) did not meet their case, hut Mr. 'A. Macdonald, Deputy Authority, thought they were placing too narrow an interpretation on the regulation.
Mr. Macdonald commented that no evidence of need had been provided by the applicants' customers. For all he knew, in allocating vehicles to the various branches of their organization. the British Transport Commission might themselves be creating difficulties for one particular branch. He could not understand why B.R.S. continued to accept contracts when they had not the vehicles to do the work.
Mr. H. Norman Letts, for the objectors, made clear on Monday that his statement at an earlier hearing • (December 2) that the B.T.C. had not honoured their agreement to notify the toad Haulage Association about the termination of contracts, did not apply to B.R.S. (Pickfords). Ltd.
DEPUTATION ON DISPOSAL?
rONSERVATIVE and Unionist Members of Parliament in the West Midlands are to be asked to receive a deputation to discuss the Government's new policy on disposal. This decision was reached this week by the West Midland Area Committee of the Road Haulage Association.
I.M.L SUMMER SCHOOL
APPLICATIONS may now be made for the residential summer school of the Institute of the Motor Industry at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, from August 25-September I. Forms may be obtained from Dr. R. D. A. Crafter; Institute of the Motor industry, 40 Queen's Gate, London, S.W.7.