No witnesses: short-term grant
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ANGLIAN SALES (BULB Y) LTD., Lincolnshire scrap contractors, were granted a short-term haulage licence last week to enable them to honour an export contract.
The company applied to the East Midland Licensing Authority for a licence for two vehicles and trailers for the transport of used sleepers, timber, steel and telegraph poles, scrap materials and old railway lines, all to be acquired. P. C. Howard Ltd. and Michael Watts Ltd., objected to the application.
Mr. Geoffrey Taylor, trading as Anglian Sales (Bulby) Ltd., said he had misunderstood the situation—he thought that the objectors had withdrawn. He told the LA, Mr. C. M. Sheridan, that he had an urgent contract to transport 1,000 tons of scrap metal to the docks by Wednesday and if the hearing was adjourned he would be unable to honour the contract. He could not hire vehicles and trailers to do the work.
Unable to hire
Mr. Sheridan granted licences for two vehicles until the next hearing, so that the export order could be honoured.
Mr. Taylor said he had been forced to apply for the licence because he was unable to hire vehicles to do the contract work. He did not intend running a road haulage business. He had asked for empty lorries, but local firms, including the two objectors, could not accommodate him. "I could use ten lorries a day every day next week, if they were offered," he said.
Granting him a short-term licence, Mr. Sheridan said it would be dangerous to continue the application without the witnesses which would have been produced had Mr. Taylor not thought the objectors had withdrawn.
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