Business Changed : Grant Refused
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AA N application by Aycliffe Transport Services, Ltd., Darlington, to add two vehicles, each of 6 tons unladen, to their fleet, was refused by the Northern Licensing Authority on Monday.
The case had been commenced earlier in the month and adjourned to allow the objectors, British Road Services and British Railways, to furnish evidence of their existing facilities. At the earlier hearing, the applicants said that they were being asked by existing customers to provide facilities for longdistance haulage. Figures showed an increase in turnover, together with greater hiring.
On Monday, Mr. G. G. W'ahlstrand produced schedules of B.R.S. facilities in the area, together with a statement of work which had been done during the past three years for the same customers for whom the applicants were also working.
He submitted letters from Head Wrightson Stampings, Ltd., and Darlington Forge, Ltd., which stated that the existing services provided by B.R.S. were satisfadtory. lie agreed with Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for the applicants, that the figures showed an increase in the work done by B.R.S. for these two concerns.
The Authority observed that there would be an excess of facilities if he granted the application, "This business has changed completely," he said. "After considering the figures produced by the objectors, there appears to be considerable availability of vehicles of the type applied for."
There would be a complete change of activities by the applicants, as their existing fleet consisted of vehicles of ' 2i tons each. Any grant of this kind would result in abstraction from the objectors, he said.