16-vehicle Contract Switch Approved
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THE Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir. in a written decision issued on Wednesday granted S. and S. (Contracts), Ltd., of Enfield. Middlesex, a 16-vehicle A licence provided they surrender 22 vehicles at present operating under contract licences with Dependable Furniture, Ltd., and I. Baskin, Ltd.
At public inquiries held in May and June, Mr. Muir was told that the firm started carrying under contract in January, 1959, with 22 vehicles. The application was for 26 furniture vans to carry "mainly new furniture throughout Great Britain "--all to he surrendered from contract A licences.
For the 19 objectors. which included
the B.T.C., it was said that there was spare capacity among the objectors; the contracts which led to the grant of the contract licences were imprudent. It would be wrong to enable an applicant to become a public haulier on the strength of his alleged difficulties under arrangements into which he ought never to have entered.
In his decision, Mr. Muir said that he found that although Mr. Shepherd (a director of the applicant company) was now well aware that the contracts were imprudent, he did not enter into them in the sure knowledge that they would land him in such grave difficulties that they would have to be replaced by other arrangements.