Western LA's imagination stretched
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• When curtailing an operator's licence by reducing the authorized vehicles from five to two under Section 69 at a traffic inquiry in Plymouth on Tuesday, Mr J. R. C. Samuel Gibbon, the Western LA, said it was useless for an operator to arrange a contract with any vehicle maintenance engineers for the vehicles to be inspected and maintained every four weeks if the vehicles were only submitted to the garage for this purpose every six weeks.
Mr T. W. J. Saunders of Wembury was applying for the renewal of his 0 licence in respect of five vehicles. Evidence given by Mr M. W. Pike, a vehicle examiner, that in the case of one vehicle examined 11 defects were found and the same vehicle failed its annual test some 14 days later. A maintenance record dated three days before the first examination recorded that the vehicle was satisfactory. Records produced by the applicant showed that the vehicles were being submitted for inspection and maintenance only at approximately six week intervals.
The LA said that even by stretching his consideration to the very limit it was possible only for him to grant a renewal licence in respect of two vehicles.