Difficulties Eased by New Grant
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nECAUSE work was not covered by the terms of the normal user of part of his fleet, a Blackburn hattlier had to refuse to carry a customer's goods when he had A-licensed vehicles standing idle. Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, was told this
• at Blackburn last week when R. Griffiths, Ltd., Fountain Garage, Stanley Street, Blackburn, were authorized to put 16 vehicles of 591 tons on a new A licence.
• Mr. J. Backhouse, for the applicants, said that the vehicles were at preseat specified on three different A licences, in the natiie of Robert Griffiths, sen., each with a different normal user.
The eight-vehicle licence was formerly engaged 90 per cent. in meat haulage, but there had been a recession in the past two years since many small butcherS in East Lancashire collected their own meat. Vehicles engaged on this work had dropped to three or four in 196Q, but capacity had been taken up by work for the Prestige Group's factory at Burnley, which had increased since their takeover
of Ewbank, Ltd., Accrington. • Mr. R. Griffiths, jun., traffic manage'. said that they operated a parcels delivery service to shops and wholesalers, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, the Midlands and London for Prestige.