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MR. P. E. G. WRIGHT, of Harpenden, Herts, who twelve months ago converted a contract licensed vehicle to a limited B, was granted further conditions by Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, after witnesses from local firms had said that B.R.S. facilities were not suitable for urgent export consignments at short
notice. . .
Mr. A. R. Richardson, traffic manager of ihe Norton Grinding Wheel Co., Ltd., of Welwyn Garden City, said that ships had been missed on countless occasions. There had been long delays by British Railways in deliveries to Brussels Wharf. and the traffic had now been diverted to Hull. His own vehicles had been delayed from ten in the morning unfit six in the evening waiting to deliver a +-ton toad.
After hearing evidence by B.R.S. (Parcels), Ltd., the Licensing Authority said that he was only prepared to add the name of Norton Grinding Wheels to the licence and to extend the facilit:el authorized for the Murphy Chemical Co., Ltd., to include urgent collections in London as return loads.