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DRIVERS TURN DIRECTORS IN CEREBOS BID
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ANEWLY CONSTITUTED company, whose directors had previously carried traffic for Cerebos Foods Ltd. as owner-operators on sub-hire to Pointons Fuel and Transport Ltd., applied in Manchester on Monday for a licence to carry it direct.
Jodrell Transport Co. Ltd., Knutsford, was applying for four vehicles to carry foodstuffs, animal foods and other products, packing and raw materials for Cerebos of Middlewich, at whose premises the vehicles would be based.
Pointons was objecting to the application. Earlier a Pointons B-licence renewal with modifications had been adjourned.
For the applicants, Mr. J. A. Backhouse told the North Western deputy LA, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, that Pointons had carried for Cerebos in the past. People whose services it had hired included Mr. Kenyon, Mr. Buxton and Mr. Colton, as drivers, and Mrs. Capper, whose husband drove. These people were directors of the new company.
Mr. Backhouse said Pointons had been fined heavily at Sandbach magistrates' court last May and Cerebos had received unwelcome publicity because of this. Cerebos had approached these four operators to handle the work and they were supported by a letter from Cerebos dated August 23. But a further promised letter had not yet been received by the LA.
Pointons had ceased working for Cerebos on October 27. Mr. J. R. Kenyon, a Jodrell director, said that he understood that since then Cerebos' own vehicles and BRS had been carrying the traffic. His firm had not approached Cerebos. Each of the four directors would supply capital and a deposit towards four new six-wheelers to he acquired.
Another director, Mr. L. Colton, said he had received an absolute discharge as one of the drivers prosecuted in February for illegal operation in connection with the Cerebos work. "You pleaded," said Mr. Taylor, for Pointons, "that you were innocents abroad in the licensing world," Mr. Taylor wondered whether they knew any more about it now.
Mr. Taylor submitted that since no representative was present, Cerebos did not deem the application of any great importance and there was no evidence that it was in difficulties.
Mr. Backhouse said that if Pointons was not proceeding with its application six vehicles would be going off the road. In its letter, Cerebos had indicated that it needed four vehicles and the applicants were all familiar with this work.
Mr. Jolliffe reserved his decision.