MWP has its licence revoked
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• The licence for 30 vehicles and 15 trailers held by MWP {Merthyr Tydfil) has been revoked by South Wales Traffic Commissioner John Mervyn Pugh at a Cardiff disciplinary inquiry. Managing director David Price, who had held an 0-licence for almost 20 years, admitted that the company had got too large and that he could not cope. He said that he wanted to withdraw from transport and stick to the waste paper business, which
licence for over 20 years. was some
thing he knew about. He gave an undertaking that his partner, Janet Murdock, would also sever her involvement with the business.
For the company, Paul Carless said that Central Transport Logistics International Ltd, a company which would be operated by Price's daughters, Carolyn Hallam and Christine Watkins, was seeking a licence based at the same premises. When that was granted, Price would withdraw completely from the industry. The new company would be under the financial control of Thomas Leighton James, who was the CPC holder, The vehicles were all taxed and all outstanding fines had been paid, albeit by instalments.
In revoking the MWP licence, Mervyn Pugh suggested that the new company apply immediately for interim authority to operate the 1] vehicles and 11 trailers in possession.