BRISTOW REFUSED rEHICLES ON RENEWAL
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Haulier Sentenced to Imprisonment for False Statement : Two Operators on Similar Charge
IN a written decision hastily issued on Christmas Eve, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. 1. Muir, refused the application of C. Bristow, Ltd., 123 Solebay Street, London, E.3, for the renewal of A licences covering 33 vehicles. The application was in continuance of a licence which had been revoked on December 18. The revocation had been confirmed on appeal by the Transport Tribunal. Applications in respect of the continuance of special A licences, the transfer of four vehicles from special A to ordinary A licences and the renewal of a B licence, covering 28 vehicles in all, were granted.
Mr. Muir's decision followed hard on the Transport Tribunal's written judgment in which they confirmed the revocation of licences in respect of 47 vehicles owned by C. Bristow, Ltd., because false statements were made about the weights of 17 lorries. Leeds stipendiary magistrate last week sentenced a Sheffield haulier to three months' imprisonment for what Was described as a deliberate fraud to circumvent the findings of the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. The operator, Thomas William Chatterway, Chesterfield Road, Eckington, Sheffield, gave notice of appeal and was allowed bait on the sum of £25.
At Leeds also, Edward Starkey, haulier, and Airdale Canal Services, Ltd., both of 13ingley, were jointly fined a total of £.100 and £21 costs for making false statements in connection with a B licence.
although he hired vehicles at a cost of about £2,000 per month, he was unable to increase their number. He had been obliged to notify customers that his service would have to he curtailed.
More than 20 letters were put into court as evidence of the near impossibility of hiring transport from other concerns. Mr. Beddington also questioned several witnesses as to need. They included customers of up to four years' standing, from the fruit and vegetable, Lyre, scrap-metal and chemical distributive trades In the cases of the three subsidiaries of the Davis group, Mr. Scilly Davis said that he accepted responsibility for offences similar to those committed by C. Bristow, Ltd.
The Licensing Authority was considering the conduct of the companies under Section 13 of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, and Section 9(4) of the Transport Act, 1953, at the same time as he was hearing Bristow's renewal application.
As already stated, he decided to take no action against them,