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B-Licensee Alleged to be Crushed

1st January 1937, Page 73
1st January 1937
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Page 73, 1st January 1937 — B-Licensee Alleged to be Crushed
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Keywords : Crossley, Rolls-royce

ASTORY of the disastrous effect which restrictions imposed upon a B-licence holder has had upon his haulage activities, was told before the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority (Mr. Russell Gurney), when Mr. J. Crossley, 128, Crackenedge Lane, Leeds, applied for the variation of his licences. Decision was reserved.

Mr. F. G. Bibbings, A.R.O. Yorkshire Area secretary, for the applicant, said that Mr. Crossley, whose six vehicles had an aggregate unladen weight of 11 tons, was formerly authorized to carry certain goods within radii varying from 10 to 100 miles. These conditions were drastically altered, however, when Mr. Crossley applied in March, this year, for the renewal of his licences without variation. At the previous hearing, he refused during cross-examination by railway counsel to divulge any information concerning his haulage business. Consequently, whilst his six licences were renewed, he was limited to the conveyance only of shoddy and rags, within a radius of 10 miles.

This restriction had disastrous consequences upon the business of the applicant, who was now applying for permission to carry road and building plant, materials and like goods within a radius of 12 miles.

Whereas between January and March of this year, Mr. Crossley's traffic receipts were £258 9s.—which, in proportion, was equivalent to £1,033 per annum—since the further restrictions had been imposed his total traffic receipts during the eight months AprilNovember, 1936, fell to £18 Is.

Surely, said Mr. Bibbings, it was never intended that the Road and Rail Traffic Act should be administered in such a way that it became punitive and vindictive, with the result that an operator should be practically crushed because he felt that he ought not to have to divulge the innermost secrets of his business to his competitors.

The railway representative suggested that, so far as thepresent application was concerned, ,the applicant should be treated as a newcomer (although he had originally carried the goods inVolved Within a 60-inile


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