"Keep Within Law," Applicants Told
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EFUSING an application for a new B licence, at Leeds last week, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority warned the applicants that they would be wise to keep their operations within the terms of the law.
Messrs. R. B. Lovegrove and A. Smith, Leeds, sought a B licence for a vehicle of 3 tons unladen to carry used furniture and for household removals. Mr. Lovegrove said that he had always been in the furniture trade and gave up a B licence in 1935. Now in partnership with Mr. Smith, he wanted to carry furniture from salerooms and perform occasional removals.
At the original hearing in September, the Authority received a letter alleging that Mr. Smith. using the name of Allen, was using a Guy 3-ton lorry under C licence to carry for hire or reward, and was taking work from licensed operators.
Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the British fransport Commission, said that Mr. Lovegrove had given up his furoiture shop 15 years ago.
The Authority said that after the adjournment of the first hearing, inquiries by the enforcement section concerning goods carried for a man named Gratton, disclosed that Mr. Lovegrove was living at the same address as this person who, it had been suggested, did not exist.
Inquiries at sale-rooms in the area disclosed that auctioneers were not anxious to engage the applicants if a licence was granted. They preferred the established hauliers.
Mr. Lovegrove said that he had taken over the shop from Mrs. Gratton, whose husband was in the Forces. When Mr. Smith said that he had never been in the furniture business, but was a dealer in coal bricks, the Authority pointed out that the application described the two applicants as partners in a business.
In reply, Mr. Smith said that Mr. Lovegrove bought and renovated furniture, and he, Smith, carried it and got a percentage of the profit. Commenting that in that case Mr. Smith was only an agent for Mr. Lovegrove, the Authority refused the application.
120 VEHICLES FOR BRIGHTON CO-OP
BELIEVED to be the biggest single contract ever undertaken for a co-operative organization, 120 petrolengined vehicles costing over £.100,000 have been delivered to Brighton Co-operative Society by the C.W.S. Motor Department. Transport for the Brighton Co-operative Society was previously provided by British Road Services, but they were notified in 1953, when Mr. H. W. Walker was apointed traffic manager of the Society, that their contract would end this year.
The Society have built a new vehicle workshop at Hove, a feature of which is flooring of a special type to facilitate removal of grease.
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