Many Objectors to Ipswich Delivery B-to-A Applications
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UOUKTEEN haulage firms objected 1 last week to applications by Ipswich Delivery Service Ltd. for an A licence to operate four vans within a 25-mile radius of its base and for an A licence to carry general goods, mainly for Pye Ltd. and its associated services as well as household removals throughout Britain.
The applications were heard by Mr. John Gazdar, the Eastern deputy Licensing Authority, and the hearing was adjourned until June 28 when the objectors will be heard.
The objectors included British Road Services, Pick fords, Boardman (Stratford) Ltd., W. Carter Ltd. (Woodbridge), J. Bloomfield and Sons. Felixstowe, Cole and Sons. Stowmarket, and J. A. Wyard Ltd., Ipswich.
Mr. M. H. Jackson-Lipkin, for Ipswich Delivery Service, read letters from the firm's customers supporting the applications.
Mr. Dennis Collis, managing director of the applicant company, told the LA that because of the licence restrictions on some of his vehicles, several were under-employed.
If the applications were granted, he said, increased facilities would be available to his customers.
Questioned by Mr. S. J. Green, representing a number of the objectors, Mr. Collis said he wanted to increase the range of goods he could carry on his vehicles. Some of them were standing idle at times. He estimated that between 40 and 50 per cent of his vehicles on B licence were under-employed.
Cross-examined by Mr. C. Kaile, for BRS and Pickfords, Mr. Collis agreed that the applications, if granted, would allow him to use five more vehicles for the house arid furniture removals. But he denied that the inevitable effect in Ipswich would be to abstract traffic which would have been carried by other operators.