B.-licence Conditions Varied by Tribunal
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THE Transport Tribunal, in London
last week, varied the conditions on a B licence granted to F. Whittock, Ltd., Bath, and reduced the number of vehicles from 15 to 14. The British Transport Commission had appealed against the grant of an extension, by the Western Licensing Authority, to permit the 15 vehicles to collect solid fuel within a radius of 150 miles and deliver within a radius of 60 miles.
Mr. C. P. Crowe, for the B.T.C.. claimed that the radius was too wide and there had not been sufficient evidence of need for all the vehicles. The applicants required the new conditions because customers wanted coke brought from Beckton instead of from local gas works.
Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for the respondents, said they had been unable to do the work while the appeal was pending. They had gone into voluntary liquidation since, and in addition faced a possible claim for damages for not fulfilling their contract.
Giving the Tribunal's decision the president, Sir Hubert Hull, said justice required that some additional facilities should be afforded the company. They thought an improvement in the conditions should apply to all the B licence vehicles except one. a 14-ton van, but that the radius granted by the Authority was too. much.
The Tribunal ruled that the 14 vehicles... should be permitted to collect from Beekton and deliver within a radius of 40 miles—the extent of their radius before the application.