No B Licence for Driver
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A LORRY driver all his life, Mr. 1-1.1. E. Bell, Bootle, who had saved up £600 to buy a vehicle, was refused a B licence at Liverpool on Tuesday, after telling the North Western Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, that it was not possible to produce evidence of need until he had been granted a licence and acquired a vehicle.
Mr. Bell's application for a new B licence for a vehicle of 3 tons unladen weight to carry general goods within 40 miles of base had attracted objection from 10 hauliers in Liverpool and district.
The applicant contended that none of the objectors—Mousells (Liverpool), Ltd., J. R. Armstrong and Sons, Ltd., Messrs. Abraham and Mitchell, T. E. Hall and Co., Ltd., Messrs. E. Spencer and Co., Messrs. J. Daly, Messrs. A. Orme, Messrs. J. Dodd and the British Transport Commission — would be affected, and that his knowledge of the docks and Merseyside generally would be invaluable to customers.
Mr. Lindsay said that however sympathetically he might regard the application, it could not be granted on such evidence. Mr. Bell retorted that the refusal was not unexpected as he had been warned that haulage was a "closed shop."
BADLY KEPT FIGURES: APPLICATION FAILS
ADmissioNs on behalf of Knowles and Sons (Garages), Ltd., Bolton. that their statistics had been so badly kept that figures of licensed excursion operation, produced in recent cases, had included private parties, wrong destinations, a number of irregular operations and many errors in the number af passengers carried, resultedIn the North Western Traffic Commissioners' refusing the company's application at Manchester last week to increase their vehicle allowance on an excursion licence from Bolton, taken over from Webster Bros., Ltd.
The application was first heard on February 26 but adjourned after it was submitted that the figures produced could not be reconciled with those previously used in objections to the Stockport-Southport express application of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.
BUS EARNINGS UP IN the four weeks ended April 21, London Transport road services earned £4.6m., compared with £4.2m. in the corresponding period of 1956, and their aggregate earnings from January 1-April 21 came to £18.5m., as against £16.4m. in the same period 12 months earlier.
State-owned provincial and Scottish buses earned £4.4m. in the four weeks ended April 21, bringing their aggregate for the 16-week period to £17.2m. Comparable figures for 1956 were £4.1m. and £15m.