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PD loses 37

12th October 1973
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• A record of 48 prohibitions, nine defect notices and five overloading convictions in three years cost PD Wharfage and Transport of Shoreham by Sea 37 vehicles deleted from the margin of its 237 vehicles authorized, 150 specified, 0 licence at a public inquiry in Brighton last week. MajGen A. F. J. Elmslie, the South Eastern LA, said in announcing his decision that though it would be difficult to fault the company's maintenance system on paper, it was obvious that it had not been as efficient as it should have been in practice. The number of prohibitions which had been refused clearance had given rise for concern, he said.

Vehicle examiner Richard Surtees told the LA that he had been satisfied with the facilities provided by the company for maintaining the vehicles when he had inspected the Shoreham depot where the fleet was maintained. Since his inspection improvements had been made in the system of preventive maintenance.

For the company, its transport director Mr Richard Hough said that staff difficulties and objections to planning applications at the Chichester depot had affected the company's maintenance arrangements during 1971 and 1972. New management personnel had introduced improved maintenance schemes in September 1971 and all the maintenance had been transferred to the Shoreham depot. At the same time a programme of replacement of older vehicles was introduced.


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