Suspension for Normal User Breach
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ANORTH WALES haulier's use of an A-licensed vehicle with a normal user confined to the Isle of Anglesey, for regular journeys to Durham, Workington, Gillingham and Birmingham, resulted in the vehicle's suspension for two months by the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe.
Mr. W. J. Davies, Beach Yard, Holyhead, was applying, at Caernarvon, for renewal of the licence with modification. He told Mr. Jolliffe that he took over the vehicle and licence in 1957. The vehicle was taken into the existing fleet and within two months was making journeys all over England an back-loading to North Wales.
The normal user of the other vehicles was wider and he had not realized that it was wrong for them to work together. without notification to the Licensing Authority.
Mr. J. Edward Jones, for Davies, said it was essential the fleet should have a common normal user for flexibility. The fact that the applicant had been doing the work proved need.
The circumstances of the case were deplorable, submitted Mr. G. H. P. Bearnes, objecting for British Railways. If such operations were condoned it would put an end to the licensing system.
Mr. Jolliffe said he took a serious view of the irregularity, the change of normal user would be refused and the licence suspended until February 15, 1961.
NEWCASTLE URGES CRANE REGULATIONS`
BECAUSE of the high incidence of
U collisions between mobile cranes and Corporation buses in recent years, Newcastle Transport Committee are to press for regulations for the passage of cranes through the city.
Last week there was a collision between a trolley-bus and a mobile crane which resulted in a jib of the crane penetrating the upper saloon of the bus, though no one was hurt. There have been seven such accidents in the past two years.
MAKERS AND UNIONS MEET
VjEHICLE manufacturers and the
V engineering unions met lust before Christmas to discuss production and employment prospects in the motor vehicle industry in the months ahead. "There was," say the Board of Trade, " a full exchange of views." The meeting was under the chainnanship of Sir Richard Powell, Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade.
The representatives of the unions are to report to their executives on January 12.