Phantom licence?
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• Argument raged in a Manchester traffic court on Wednesday over a licence that might never be needed. If the Transport Bill gains Royal Assent next month, the 1+-ton van for which Mr. J. Devlin of Mosside, Manchester, was granted a new B licence will be freed of carrier's licence restrictions altogether.
He was asking to carry furniture within 15 miles of base and five furniture removers were objecting to his application. Mr. Devlin told the North Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, that he was a furniture dealer and delivered to his customers under a C licence. He had had many requests to move odd items or to remove household effects from the oneand two-room flats in his area. He produced a number of letters which he said had been slipped through his door as people knew he had this vehicle.
For two of the objectors, Mr. F. Moss pointed out that the application did not include complete removals so the LA restricted the licence to the carriage of odd items within five miles but excluding removals.