Annis Appeal: Decision Reserved
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DECISION was reserved by the Transport [Appeal] Tribunal, last week, on an appeal by Annis and Co., Ltd., Pump Lane, Hayes, Middx, against the refusal by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority to grant an A licence for three heavy articulated vehicles to carry abnormal, indivisible loads. Objections were lodged by the Road Haulage Executive and the Railway Executive.
The company already operates three vehicles on the carriage of abnormal, indivisible loads. One of the machines concerned in the application is at present being run under a C-hiring margin. Mr, F. A, Stockdale, for the appellant, said that before nationalization there were 114 heavy hauliers in Britain, of whom 30 worked, in the
45-ton field. At the time of company's application, however, there were only 29, of whom two operated in the 45-ton field.
This, he submitted, created difficulties in sub-contracting for the haulage of abnormal, indivisible loads.
Mr, D. L. McDonnell, for the respondents, contested this assertion. Mr. Stockdale's comparison, he said, was of no value to the Tribunal, because numbers of the operators mentioned were of no significance. Little evidence had been called by Annis and Co., Ltd., to prove inconvenience because of the lack of heavy vehicles.