Work Could be Done Under C Licence B.R.S. Tells B-licence Applicant
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nESPITE strong opposition from British Road Services and British Railway and a submission that the facilities sought by an applicant seeking a new one-vehicle B licence .could be met by the vehicle operating under a C licence. the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, granted the application.
Mr. P. A. Adamson, of Heston, Middlesex, who appeared before the deputy Authority on Tuesday, said that he was driving the vehicle in question under C licence for A. A. Sheet Metal Co.—a company which had been founded and was directed by his father. If the application—to carry small metal cases and frames within 100 miles of Hounslow —were granted, Mr. Adamson said, he would take over the vehicle and carry goods for his father's company and a subsidiary, R.A.C. Panels, and also for J. Crook and Sons—all three occupying adjacent premises at Dartford. The vehicle would be fully occupied, he said, especially when a new branch of A.A. Sheet Metals was opened shortly at Ramsgate. The goods to be carried were processed by the three companies.
Mr. Richard Yorke, for B.R.S., crossexamining the father, Mr. A. A. Adamson, suggested that everything that was being done at present by the C-licensed vehicle could quite properly and lawfully he done in the future (and notwithstanding the fact that .a new branch was opening at Ramsgate) under a C licence. Mr. Yorke submitted that as no one had
appeared to support the application free Crook and Sons, they could be ignored s far as the present application was cor cerned. He referred the deputy Authorit to the judgment of Lord Justice Devil in the Merchandise Transport appeal an submitted that what the L.A. had to cor sider was whether the customer ha already got fac:lities in a form whic could not be regarded as unsuitable.
Following the Court of Appeal i Merchandise, Mr. Yorke continued, ther was no possible ground for a gran However, if the deputy Authority decide to rule against this submission, M Yorke suggested that any grant shout he conditioned to include the two name customers between Ramsgate and AO ford. Earlier in the case he had suggeste that the appl:cation should have bee made in the South Eastern area.
Replying for the applicant. Mr. W. Aylward agreed that the facilities sougl amounted practically to C-licence wonl He asked for a grant to be made i iespect of the three customers named ti the applicant.
Making a grant, restricted to Al Sheet Metal Co. and .R.A.C. Panels. ar naming several delivery and collectic points, including Ashford and Ramsgat Mr. Macdonald said that the applicatic was an unusual one. However, I thought it was appropriate to grant a licence. No carrier, he added, was goir to suffer as a result of the grant beeau: the work was already being carried ce by the applicant under a C licence.