DEPUTY LA SURPRISES WALKER BROS.
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VITALKER Bros. (Cowdenbeath) Ltd.
V have had about 50 per cent success in their series of applications to the Scottish Licensing Authority. But deputy LA Mr. L. A. Wells sprang a surprise when after the closing speeches on the final day of a hearing at Kirkcaldy on Tuesday be gave an on-thespot decision without even retiring.
He explained that this was because he had been making a very careful study of the transcripts.
He said that the evidence he had heard for the B licences was unconvincing. No one had told him why he should increase the radius of general goods excluding coal from 50 to 120 miles or increase the radius of coal from 50 to 120 miles with extension to Aberfeldy and Pitlochry, and he had no option but to refuse this part of the application.
Mr. Wells said, however, that he intended to grant the application for an additional articulated vehicle. He also said it would be right to grant the main application to extend the radius to 40 miles, with an extension to 100 miles for work for Alexander Russell of Glasgow.
The work was formerly undertaken by the Dunfermline haulage contractor Frank Ward until Walker Bros. acquired his fleet of seven vehicles on short-term licences in October last year.