No fun so no licence
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'A FIRM selling plastic goods at county shows and fairgrounds was not entitled to a showman's road fund licence for its articulated vehicles, a High Court Judge has ruled.
Lakeland Plastics (Windermere) had appealed against the Licensing Authority's refusal to grant such a licence, which is a quarter of the cost of a full heavy goods vehicle licence.
Lakeland asked the Court for a declaration that the firm was a "showman" within the meaning of the Vehicles Excise Act 1971.
Mr Justice Stephen Brown heard that the firm's two vehicles were used exclusively for travelling from show to show. Sixty-six per cent of its business was mail order but another 11.3 per cent of sales came from the two vehicles.
But the judge agreed with the LA that the firm did not fit the description of "travelling showman" because it was not directly involved in entertainment but was purely a commercial undertaking.