USE OF VEHICLES OUTSIDE LICENCE
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A N application by Mr. D. G. Winzer, 1-1 of Maytor, Devon, for the renewal of an A licence was adjourned by the Western Licensing Authority at Bristol this week so that the applicant could consider being represented. Mr. Winzer admitted using his vehicles for purposes for which they were not licensed.
Representing six objectors, Mr. M. Thorpe claimed that Mr. Winzer used his vehicles with a complete disregard of licensing conditions. In cross examination, Mr. Winzer said he had a lorry specifically licensed for the carriage of timber for George Hopton Ltd., of Uxbridge, Middlesex, and admitted that it was used to carry goods for other customers. " I was reported to the Licensing Authority and received a warning,"_ he said. "1 used lorries for other purposes, pressure
Mr. Thorpe contended that the warning given for offences were not instances of illegal use of lorries, but simply indications that vehicles were being run day in and day out with total disregard. The Autleority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, asked: "Were they not items taken out of a long course of misconduct?" Mr:Winzer: "1 would say there were four vehicles I can bring to mind I used when I should not have done." He added that he understood he was covered by a substitution licence.
In adjourning the case, Mr. Nelson said it was clear it could not go on indefinitely. "I am trying to help you all I can," he told Mr. Winzer. "but I cannot be an advocate and a judge." He added that it would have been better if the applicant had been represented.
Switching Contract hut Not C
DESCRIBED by the West Midland deputy Licensing Authority, as a very energetic. businessman, Mr. W. R. Nye, of Stafford, partially succeeded at Birmingham last week with an application to put his six-vehicle Contract A and C-licence fleet on a B licence to reduce empty running.
The deputy Authority, Mr. Hall. granted a B licence for three contract vehicles, but ruled that the three C-licence vehicles should remain unchanged.
Mr. N. Carless, for Mr. Nye, said the C-licence vehicles were operated in connection with various businesses run by his client under trade names, including waste paper, a construction company and an industrial window cleaning business. The three contract vehicles carried a special type acoustic tile for Thermo Acoustic Products Ltd.
Without calling any evidence, Mt: J. Foley Egginton, appearing for three of the four objectors, successfully submitted that the applicant had made out a case for a three-vehicle B licence only.