. A Licence Suspended for Three Months
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F01 falsely stating in an application form that he dwnecl a vehicle or was in possession of it under an H.P. agreement, Mr. G. W. Connor, of Walthamstow, E., had his A licence suspended for three months by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, last week. Mr. Connor said that his own vehicle was unroadworthy and the vehicle mentioned in the application form had been passed to him temporarily by a Mr. Scutchings. The intention was that a business should be formed.
Mr. Muir: " You had a licence and
no vehicle, and Scutehings and another person called Blowes had a vehicle; and they operated the vehicle under the cover of your licence, the intention being that this would be done until sufficient work had been obtained to justify a takeover application."
"I would not put. it as crudely as that," replied Mr. Connor.
Suspending the licence, Mr. Muir said that he had no alternative but to stick to the letter of the law. He was satisfied that, there had been some subterfuge. Unless further matters came to light, at the end of the suspension period Connor could make a takeover application.
REVOCATION ADJOURNED • 'THE Metropolitan Licensing Authority,
Mr. D. I. R. Muir, last week adjourned his decision on whether or not to strike off a vehicle specified in an A licence in the name of Stevenage Transport Co., Ltd. He had called the company to a public inquiry because of an apparent change of ownership of the vehicle.
Mr. Ralph Cropper told Mr. Muir that the company was in the hands of 41. receiver and manager, and a witness from a firm of accountants, told him that he hoped to be able to give some definite information to the Authority by the end of April.