How Should A-licensee Describe Business ?
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.DREPARATIONS are being made for 1 a fight in the North-Westerti Area with regard to the description which it is necessary for a public carrier to give of his operations. In a case heard before Sir William Hart, NorthWestern Deputy Licensing Authority, in Manchester, last Friday, objection Was taken to -the common-form method adopted on behalf of the members of the C.M.U.A.
Mr. H. Backhouse, solicitor to the Association, said that the case being considered was not one upon which the matter could be argued, but the C.M.U.A. had given serious consideration to it. So far as he knew, the North Western was the only traffic area in which an applicant for an A licencewas required to give a more detailed description than " Goods, Great Britain," if that was for what he held
himself out to cater. Any public carrier was entitled to describe his operations in that way.
The form of the C.M.U.A. specified the area of normal use. It that were wrong, Mr. Backhouse wanted an opportunity of discussing the matter, but the effect was to notify the normal area to possible objectors and it was not in any way a condition limiting the licensee's operations.
Mr. Backhouse objected to the description of a man's .activities being limited to what he might happen to have been called upon to do during the past 12 months. He reminded the court that a carrier had given evidence only that morning, of a customer of considerable importance, who sometimes had nothing for him throughout a year. He would' argue the matter further on a future occasion.