Mr. Muir Revokes a B Licence T HE Metropolitan Licensing AuthiSrity,
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Mr. D. I. R. Muir, on Wednesday revoked a one vehicle B licence after hearing how a customer who had supported an application when he applied for the licence, had " disappeared " and the applicant was forced to seek other work outside the conditions of his licence.
At a combined hearing of an application to vary the B-licence conditions, Mr. Muir was also considering whether or not to revoke the licence of S. J. Lindsay, of Stepney, under section 178 1 (d) of the 1960 Act because of a breach of licence conditions.
Mr. W. D. Ainger, for Lindsay, said that be hoped to show that the breach was not wilful or premeditated but was due to unfortunate circumstances.
Giving evidence, Mr. Lindsay told the Authority that he was at present
unemployed because of ill-health. He had met Mr. T. Lewis, of Stepney, who told him that if he could get a B licence he would give him work. Lindsay applied for a licence and on the strength of a letter from Lewis (the applicatiOn being unopposed) he was granted a licence to carry for Lewis within a 10 miles radius.
He tried to contact Lewis after the licence was granted but was unable to find him, and he therefore approached H. Sharp and Sons—a clearing house— and told the company that he was licensed to carry general goods 50 miles. Sharp had given him work, which he carried out for about nine or 10 weeks.
Giving his decision, Mr. Muir said that no one could fail to be sympathetic with the applicant in his plight. But the evidence did not begin to add up to a need for such a grant.