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Assurance over sleeping director wins licence
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AN INTERNATIONAL removals firm has been granted a licence after it undertook that a director who had been involved with a revoked licence would not take part in its management.
Cestrian Removals, trading as Brittania Cestrian Removals, sought a new licence for four vehicles and two trailers based at Preston, Lancs.
North-Western Traffic Commissioner Beverley Bell heard the application at a Go'borne public inquiry.
For the company, Charles Stansfield said it had held a licence in North Wales for eight vehicles and two trailers for more than 10 years without any difficulty. If the application was granted three vehicles would be transferred from the Welsh licence.
The nominated transport manager Christopher Smallwood, who had held a CPC for 13 years, was also the transport manager of Movers International Europe. He was a director on the board of the British Association of Removers and was an elected member of that body's council.
The TC expressed concern about the involvement of one of the directors, Susan Ferguson, who was not present,because of links with Global Flight Support,a company of which her son John Ferguson was a director and whose licence had been revoked in December 2005. She wanted to know that this application was not a phoenix or a front for John Ferguson.
Director Timothy Magiera said that Susan Ferguson, who was one of three shareholders, was in effect a sleeping director who would have no involvement in the day-to-day running of the company. He agreed that she was also a director of Movers International Europe.
Director Charles Bollen said Cestrian had a substantial Spanish business and was introduced to Susan Ferguson, who had a similar business, in November 2006; it was decided to merge the two businesses.