Unilever Get Six B at Rehearing T HE application by Unilever Ltd.
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for B licences for two vehicles based on Leith and four vehiees based on Renfrew, referred back to the Scottish Licensing Authority by the Transport Tribunal, was heard on Monday at Edinburgh when agreement was reached and the' application granted with a modified basis agreed between the parties.
In the original application Unilever Ltd. sought considerably wider scope which was refused; the Tribunal took the view that there was a sufficient argument for the objectors to state their facilities and the rehearing was designed to allow this.
In the interval Unilever offered new terms which provided that the B licence vehicles sought should operate on distribution of consumer goods from own warehouses at Leith and Renfrew and any goods returning to the warehouse from a radius of 65 miles in the case of Edinburgh and 70 miles in the case of Renfrew ".
These proposals were largely accepted and Mr. J. Buchanan (for, objectors) intimated agreement in principle. Effort was made to limit the maximum distance in each case to one vehicle but the applicant pointed out that there would be no benefit to the objectors in such an arrangement.
Mr. W. Quin, the Licensing Authoritre pointed out that the rehearing had been designed to allow objectors to show their own facilities; as this agreement was now reached there seemed a limited importance in the radius. Mr. T. H. Campbell
NiVarcllaw, for Unilever, pointed out that the distances had been designed to integrate national distribution and had been carefully worked out,.
On agreement that the deliveries should be to a stated list of customersKimberley-Clark Ltd., Department of Health for Scotland, Cow and Gate Ltd., Unigate Ltd., Kenco Coffee Co. and C3. Mason and Co. Ltd.—the parties agreed to accept the new conditions offered by Unilever and Mr. Quin ruled accordingly in his decision.