GV9 a warning in itself'
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• Commenting that every prohibition notice was a warning in itself, the Western LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, curtailed the operator's licence of G. and G. Tolley and A. W. Smale of Bideford, North Devon, by nine vehicles, from 26 to 17, for four months, at a public inquiry in Barnstaple.
Tolley and Smale had been called last week to the inquiry under Section 69 having received 32 GV9s during 1972 and up to and including May 1973.
Mr Gerald Tolley, a partner, admitted that between' April 1971 and December 1972 the fleet maintenance had been most unsatisfactory and said there was really no excuse for what had happened. He had tried to take too much on his own shoulders following the death of his father in 1971.
Mr Tolley told the LA that he had now appointed an accountant, and a traffic manager. He was also endeavouring to employ a fleet engineer in order that a far more critical inspection of vehicles could be made.
It was a very bad state of affairs hut the LA hoped that Mr Tolley had now got the message. He did not wish to hit when a man was down, but, in view of the seriousness of the matter, a penalty had to be given.