Maintenance V chides Refused
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T SMITH (BICKNOR), LTD., English j • Bicknor. Gloucestershire, made an unsuccessful application to Mr. C. J. Macdonald, deputizing for the Western Licensing Authority, at Cheltenham, last Friday to vary their A licence by adding two vehicles (a tipper of 8+ tons unladen weight and an articulated unit of similar weight) to their existing fleet of 29 vehicles.
The new vehicles were to be used solely in replacement of any authorized vehicle which is off the road under repair or for maintenance as follows: " A " vehicles in accordance with the declared normal user; "B" vehicles in accordance with the conditions to which the vehicle under replacement is subject.
A spokesman for the company, replying to Mr. Rosser John, objecting for a number of Welsh operators, said he had no documentary evidence to show when any of their vehicles had been off the road, and he agreed that they had never applied for a substitution. He said he was basing his application on a need for two vehicles to maintain their existing fleet in road-worthy order.
CONTAINER TRAFFIC LOST 'HE first consignment of chilled 'horse 1 flesh from Eire was despatched to Larne last week for shipment, via Preston, to France. The consignment was shipped by the Irish Horse Abattoir Co., Straffan, Co. Kildare, and was carried in refrigerated containers. It is being shipped via Larne because of the continued refusal of Dublin dockers to handle container traffic.