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B.R. Say Normal User Ignored
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AFTER a hearing which had lasted two days the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. H. A. Randolph granted an application by V. Wainwright and Co., Ltd., Dearne Garage. Hoyle Mill, Barnsley, to renew an A licence for three vehicles despite a strong objection from British Railways —who claimed that the normal user had
been completely ignored. '
Mr. P. Kenny, for the applicant, said that before the war the business had been one of purely local work mostly carrying miners' home coal. Since the war the business had increased its activities and a limited company was formed in 1948. At their last renewal the company had declared its normal user as coal and groceries mainly within 50 miles. The shares had been taken over by a clearing house who used the vehicles extensively on long-distance haulage.
An application to substitute one vehicle for a new one had disclosed a far more comprehensive normal user. The clearing house transferred the shares to Ackworth Transport, who operated a large group of haulage companies, and had been told that the normal user was "general goods, Great Britain." They had merged the vehicles with their own fleet and he did not understand the suggestion by the objectors that there were numerous inequalities.
Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways, said that the facts, as disclosed, made a mockery of licensing procedure. The various " takeovers" had never been published, as only shares had changed hands. The purchasers never had to appear before the Authority and, therefore, no control over the "normal user" could be exercised.
The substitution referred to, said Mr. Atkinson, did not involve an increase in unladen weight—therefore it was not published and his clients had no opportunity to object to the amended normal user.
Mr. Randolph stated that, whilst he agreed with the objectors, he had to grant the renewal as the records showed that the vehicles were fully employed and had earned £5,000 in II months. The vehicles and their predecessors had an interesting history, but they were also serving a useful purpose, consequently' the application must succeed.
FINES FOR IRREGULARITIES
FINES totalling £5 were imposed at Goole Magistrates' Court last week on haulier, Thomas L. Taylor, River View, Reedness, nr. Goole, for offences concerned with use of a motor lorry. He was fined £2 for failing to cause a driver to keep current records; £2 as the owner of a lorry which had inefficient brakes; and El for using the vehicle without an efficient speedometer.
A driver employed by Taylor—Allan Leeman. White House, Reedness --was fined £1 for failing to keep records; and £1 for using the lorry with inefficient brakes.
QUOTAS FOR SOVIET IMPORTS
MOTOR vehicles and spare parts—to the value of £260,000—figure in the list of quotas for United Kingdom goods to be exported to the Soviet Union as a result of the trade agreement reached recently between the two countries. The figure concerns exports in the year ending June 30, 1960.
On the other side of the balance the quota of Soviet manufactured motor vehicles and spares for import to this country, is fixed at £150,000..