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WT licence revoked
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• The licence held by John Menzies Jnr, trading as Whickham Transport, which was suspended in April by North Eastern Licensing Authority Frederick Whalley, has now been revoked on grounds of finance.
Menzies held a licence authorising four vehicles and trailers, and had applied to change his operating centre and to reduce the authorisation on the licence by two trailers. It was suspended in April when he went to a funeral rather than attend a public inquiry.
When the case resumed, Roger Hird, for Menzies, said that on the last occasion there had been a letter from the owners of the proposed operating centre, J R Adams (Newcastle), saying they did not want Menzies to use the premises. However, there was now a more recent letter giving him permission.
Menzies said his father, John Menzies Snr, had moved to Adams' premises at the end of 1987, not appreciating that he needed to inform the LA. He was buying a Leyland Roadtrain which would be used to haul Adams' semi-trailers. Five convictions for theft in 1987 had nothing to do with the operation of vehicles.
1-le agreed that he still had not paid the fee for the licence granted in 1987.
After it was said that convictions for unauthorised use and the operation of untaxed vehicles related to his father, Menzies was unable to explain why they had not been declared on the application form. Asked why vehicles had not been made available for inspection by vehicle examiners, Menzies said that if he had known about it they would have been.
John Menzies Snr said that every conviction on the schedule related to him and had nothing to do with his son.
Whalley said that if the vehicles were purported to be used under the son's 0-licence at the time of the offences, then he was culpable.
Revoking the licence, after hearing financial evidence in private, Whalley said he had grave reservations about a number of matters.