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C. Bristow Fail to Get All Vehicles Back

20th January 1961
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ALONDON haulage company which lost special A and A licences for 41 vehicles in 1959 still cannot have them back. It is C. Bristow, Ltd_ It lost the vehicles when the Metropolitan Licen3ing Authority refused to renew the licence and, at the same time, revoked three special A licences relating to eight vehicles. Subsequently Bristow appealed but withdrew the appeal later.

Last December, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, the Metropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority, heard an amended application for 19 rigids and 22 articulated units.

The application, said Mr. Macdonald in his reserved decision last week, amounted to a reinstatement of the vehicles lost, but with considerably increased tonnage. It was supported by seven customer witnesses.

"I was not . . . impressed by the evidence relating to steps taken by customers to secure regular alternative transport on a permanent basis." He added: " . . The general approach of both the applicants and the customers to the problem created by the enforced reduction of the Bristow fleet might well be regarded as calculated to preserve the Bristow position and ultimately to =iffy or neutralize the Licensing Authority's

decision . . envisaging as it did a permanent reduction of the Bristow fleet."

Nevertheless, said Mr. Macdonald, there did appear to be an element of additional traffic arising from the development of the business of some of the customers. He did not think it unreasonable to make a small grant of one 7i-1on rigid, one 41-ton rigid and two articulated units of 61 tons each.


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