VENDOR MISSING: "TRANSFER" REFUSED
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ABSENCE of a vendor of a coach business caused trouble at a sitting of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, at Manchester, and the renewal, as well as the "transfer," was refused.
The application for renewal was in the name of Messrs. A. and G. Lawton (trading as Avenue Motors), Salford, and the applicant for the new licence was Mr. W. Pritchard, represented by Mr. Riches.
Mr. Riches confessed that he did not know where the vendor was and, therefore, could not produce him to testify to the transaction. But his client had bought the business and had carried it on for some time, and it was a case for some clemency. It was a garage and taxicab business, with coaches run chiefly for the transport of " gentlemen of the pencil " and their paraphernalia to various race meetings all over the country.
Mr. W. Chamberlain, chairman, pointed out that it would be most dangerous to transfer a licence without ' knowing that a man was prepared to sell,