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C to A Switch Sought for Ten

15th October 1965
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adjourned hearing of an applicaby Spelmonden Estates Ltd., Lurst, for 10 vehicles on A licence sumed at Maidstone oe. Monday. of the vehicles formerly belonged ack and Edwards, holding C

s. The case continued on Tuesday. Jack Henley. a director of the tilt firm, produced certified figures g to haulage which had been ped at the previous hearing. In co Mr. -Kenworthâ–  -Browne, repre; British Road Services and a r of private objectors. Mr. Henley is firm had two C licences of its About 400 acres of fruit and hops 'armed and the fruit was sold in n, Manchester and elsewhere. hauliers carried fruit and some rried on their own C licence. The C-hiring licences were now the ty of his firm.

Henley was closely questioned entries in his diary. He emphatic-efuted a suggestion by Mr. irthy-Browne that any entry had lade to make it coincide with the le already 'before the authority. He he had used a Mack C-hiring on a Spelmonden vehicle and ansferred it back.

Thomas Stephens, general er of Mack and Edwards, said vas some fluctuation in the trade, :lc business was exoanding all the id they were introducing new lines. ved that his firm had not wanted the vehicles on A licences because

fluctuations in the husi.ness. Although they used BRS iii London they had not used them in the Paddock Wood area, where they proposed Spelmonden should do the work. Mr. Wrotteslev, for British_ Railways, submitted that while there might be a case for some licenees there was certainty no case for 10.

Mr. Victor Huggins. licensing representative of the South Eastern division, British Railways. produced schedules showing fruit, _vegetables and associated requisites 'carried from arid into the area concerned. He said they had " a hard core of regulars who have used us for years for fruit to such places as Birmingham. Manchester and Liverpool. We are not really interested in the short dis

tances from Kent to London. If the application were confined to London we would not oppose it."

Mr. Lionel Osborne, partner in Proven Transport Ltd.. Paddock Wood, said the company had A licences for nine vehicles used mainly for carrying produce. He was in a position to offer the applicants two full-time vehicles.

Bray Withdraws Service

L'OR 42 years villagers living in he

1 Bray, Holyport (Berks) area, have had the benefit of hoses operated by Bray Transport Ltd., but the company has now decided to discontinue the service for economic reasons.

The company will not go out of business altogether but will continue to run coaches for private hire, excursions and contract hire


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