Short-term A Licence Extension Granted A N application by Leonard Green
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Haulage Co. Ltd., Sheffield, for eight vehicles to be put on A licence was withdrawn at a hearing in Leeds last week because anticipated traffic from a G.E.C. factory at Swinton, Yorks, did not warrant it, and also because the factory was building up its own transport fleet. But there was still an o,bjection from B.G. Transport Services Ltd., of Edmonton (London) and Manchester, to the extension of a shortterm A licence for three vehicles to October 1.
Mr. J. W. Mellor, for Leonard Green, said that 20 container vehicles had been on contract to G.E.C. until November, 1962, but then the manufacturer acquired a large transport fleet of its own so it could deliver its goods on C licence. To try and smooth the transport flow throughout the year G.E.C. had also planned a buffer of "open A licences" from its usual outside operators, and that was the purpose of the original application by Leonard Green.
It had been thought that there would be sufficient work for the eight vehicles throughout the year, said Mr. Mellor, but delay in hearing the case before the Licensing Authority had shown that while there were production peaks, G.E.C. could not say that the vehicles could be fully employed.
Mr. Mellor said that G.E.C. was still uncertain on transport requirements, but over a short term three vehicles would be required from Leonard Green. G.E.C. did plan to acquire 10 more vehicles shortly and would then dispense with the short-term outside transport.
Mr. M. G. Claydon, for B.G. Transport, strongly opposed the extension of a short-term licence, as his client was operating regular services into the G.E.C. Swinton works, There had been recent occasions when B.G. Transport vehicles, reporting on 24 hours' notice, had been turned away, he said, and asked for evidence of need.
The" deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. Randolph, said he had a good deal of sympathy with B.G. Transport, but he could not see that there would be any abstraction of traffic in the small period which the short-term licence would run until the end of October. Moreover, it seemed unfair that an application granted to Green earlier this year to help people over a difficulty should be suddenly terminated, he added.
Mr. Randolph accordingly granted a shorMerm extension.