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Conditional Grant: An application by Claude Hughes and Co., Carlisle, for an addition to the company's licence of a 7-ton platform vehicle in place of a 6-tonner, was granted last week by the Northern Licensing Authority on condition that the vehicle was not longer than 30 ft, The proposed length of the new vehicle was more than 30 ft., and the Authority, Mr. 3. A. T. Hanlon, told Mr. C. Hughes, of the applicant company, that he had been badly advised. " I said recently in open court at Penrith that I was not prepared to make grants to people wanting to use vehicles for transporting livestock when they exceed 30 ft. I would need very convincing evidence of need to allow a vehicle like that on the road ", said Mr. Hanlon. Mr. Hughes undertook that any vehicle used would be within 30 ft.
Limited Grant for Six: Limited use of six tippers of 27 tons on B licence within Scotland was granted last week to Wm. F_ntwhistle and Sons (Metal) Ltd., of Dundee. Wider scope had been asked for, but the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority accepted a compromise between Entwhistle and the objectors. A-Licence Variation Refused: Last week, Angus Transport Ltd., of Dundee, was refused a variation of an A licence to add 36 tons to its existing 45-ton fleet by converting two four-wheeled vehicles to articulated outfits and adding two articulated trailers. Objectors stated that the company had no normal user permitting regular carriage of foodstuffs to English destinations and also that one of the four existing vehicles had been out of commission since August without apparently dislocating the service and the applicant had not replaced it. The Scottish deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. Birnie, said that the applicant's own evidence made it clear that his vehicles could have been more fully employed lately.
Seven Granted: In Bristol on Monday the Western Licensing Authority granted John Parsons, Gloucester, seven vehicles on B licence to carry solid fuels for Evans Reid Coal Co. Ltd., Spencer Abbot Co. Ltd., Darby and Co. (Birmingham) Ltd., Andrews Bros. of Haywards Heath, and France, Fenwick, Hargreaves and Co., within 120 miles. The vehicles, all tippers. had1 1,
prev.ous,y working on Contract A licence.