Accountancy Cost Would Exceed Profit
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WHEN Sir William Hart, NorthVV Western Deputy Licensing Authority, asked for further figures from an applicant at a Manchester inquiry, on Monday, Mr. H. Backhouse, C.M.U.A. solicitor, said that they would involve work costing more than the profit on the business.
The application was by Mr. J. Biesty, of Manchester, for the addition to his B licence for 20 vehicles, of two 34-ton tipping lorries, which he was using on a C licence, in substitution of • two horses that died. It was shown that for five months 'of 1937, haulage totalled 53,500 tons, against 34,700 tons in the comparable months ot 1936. • Being overwhelmed with work, Mr. Biesty had refused three contracts in connection with big demolition jobs, one being for 50,000 cubic yds. of excavation.
Sir William Hart wanted figures separating operation for hire or reward from " our work," Mr. Ba,ckhouse said that the figures of increase justified the extra vehicles, and it was clear that the applicant's own business was less. The splitting up, at the end of each day's work, of the various loads of all the vehicles was, he added, a totally impracticable proposition.
On each 'vehicle there-would be loads of sand and cinders, probably belonging to different people. There was no profit worth the name on the sale of cinders, but there was sufficient to prohibit their being carried under a B licence.
Sir William Hart, in deferring his decision, said he supposed that he would have to manage on the figures produced, but he was not yet satisfied that some method might not be found to meet his requirements without prohibitive expense,