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A Licence for Land Spraying Refused
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IN a written decision, Mr. I. H. A. I Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, has refused the application by Fred Chappell, Ltd., Batley, to add 10 3,000-gal, tankers to their A licence (The Commercial Motor, May 31 and June 7).
Mr. Randolph states that originally the licence was for two tippers, but in or about March last, without any notice to or authority from him, the applicants converted one of the vehicles to a tractor for the carriage of tallow and edible oils on behalf of Yorkshire Transporters, Ltd., a tanker company, who have a common director in Mr. R. Chappell.
About February, Mr. Chappell formed a company called Anarnoniacal Liquor Fertilizers, Ltd., for the purpose of demonstrating to and ultimately supplying Yorkshire farmers. An
A licence was sought so that vehicles could be used to carry fuel oil for the Fina Petroleum Co., Ltd., at times when they could not drive on to the land because of bad weather,
Mr. Randolph was not satisfied that it would be in the public interest to put
the vehicles on an A licence. There was no reason why lime-spreading should not be done on a B licence.
If the vehicles were put on A licence there would be a real danger of wasteful competition. It was significant that the only farmer witness said that he would think, twice before allowing a vehicle weighing 24 tons on his land.
It was clear that if for any reason the experiment failed, the applicant would lose no time in finding other work for vehicles which had cost £8,000 each.
Little was known of the six-wheeled vehicles it was proposed to use, but if they carried3,000-gal. tanks, the liquor would weigh about 131 tons, and if the unladen weight was 10 tons they could not legally be used on the highway under the Construction and Use Regulations.