Ratio Not Fixed in Decision
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IT was impossible to lay down a fixed I percentage of "maintenance" vehicles for the whole of a large operator's fleet because everything depended upon the number, type and age of the vehicles that the operator ran.
This is stated by the Transport Tribunal in their written reserved decision on the appeal by Harold Wood and Sons, Ltd., Heckmondwike, against the refusal of the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority to grant them an A licence for 12 vehicles. Only four vehicles were allowed.
The company had a large fleet of contract-A licensed .vehicles and required the extra vehicles under A licence for peak-period needs and to replace contract-A vehicles undergoing repair. The hearing of the ap_peal was reported in the February 8 and February. 15 issues of The Commercial Motor. The Tribunal had announced that the company's appeal had succeeded.
. The British l'ransport Commission, who responded, had submitted that as many of Wood's contract-A vehicles were based outside Yorkshire, the additional A-licensed outfits would operate • in areas in which there had been no chance for possible objectors to prove that suitable facilities existed. The Tribunal dismissed this criticism,