One Vehicle Struck Off : Another is Suspended for Six Months
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AN A-licence vehicle operated by Cameron and Gibbon, Glentone, Monymusk, was struck off, last week, by the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. Alex Robertson. He suspended another A-licence vehicle for six' months after describing an application by the concern as "one of the worst cases to come before me for some considerable time."
Cameron and Gibbon had applied for the renewal of an A licence covering two vehicles based at Aberdeen and for permission to add five special-A vehicles to the licence, two in Glasgow and three at Birmingham. British Railways objected to the applications.
In evidence, Mr. Gibbon admitted doing long-distance work with a vehicle restricted to the counties of Aberdeen. Banff and Kincardine. He also agreed that he had changed the base of three Birmingham and two Glasgow special-A vehicles without permission, moving them all to Aberdeen.
Mr. Robertson said the concern had committed a variety of offences. " it has been my unpleasant duty to take disciplinary action against a number of hauliers this year for irregularities committed," he declared. "In this case, the applicants lost a vehicle under A licence in June, 1953, because of their C-hiring activities. Despite this punishment, however, they continued C-hiring until the end of last year, when they converted three of the vehicles which were employed on C-hiring into contract-A licences."
He granted an A licence for the five special-A vehicles to carry mainly steel grit, paper products and eggs, to specified centres of England and Scotland, but immediately suspended one vehicle for six months. On the renewal application he granted only one vehicle instead of two, pointing out that• this meant, in effect, that one had been revoked.
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KENNINGS BUY CINEMA
A CINEMA at Brampton, Chesterfield, C't has been acquired by Kennings, Ltd., who are to use it as a base for self-drive business in the area.