Danger in Elaborate Conditions—L.A.
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AN amended application by Vehicle Clearances Ltd., of London, for renewal of a B licence, permitting the use of seven vehicles, also for permission to use a further four vehicles, was granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. 1. R. Muir, in London on Tuesday.
The original application had been to add 12 vehicles to the existing fleet of seven (The Commercial Motor, June 21).
For the applicant company, Mr. M. H. Jackson-Liplcin explained that when the case was due for resumption, the company found itself without a witness from Linwood, near Glasgow.
Vehicle Clearances had letters relating to Linwood and also certain verbal assurances, but owing to some misunderstanding, the application had been put forward in its old form, based largely on the Linwood traffic, said Mr. Jackson' Lipkin. It was accepted that this was a complete misunderstanding and in the ciramstances he felt it would be improper to allow the application to go forward for 12 vehicles, he continued. An agreement has been reached between the parties, he said, on the basis of the figures submitted on the last occasion; bn the maintenance and repair figures: and on the evidence given by the various customers.
The agreement is that the application should be amended to apply for additional vehicles only, and that the applicant company—through its director, Mr. R. W. Jones—should give six binding undertakings.
" They are that he will not do any• traffic out of Linwood; that he will not do any Vauxhall traffic; that his British Motor Corporation traffic will be limited to his present customers; that his Rootes
distributors' traffic will be limited to his present customers; that he will do no Fords traffic out of Dagenham (so far as Vauxhalls and Fords are concerned, these are continuations of existing undertakings given in the past) and also he will do no carriage as a sub-contractor for any member of the Auto-Freight consortium."
Mr. Muir allowed the application in its amended terms, commenting that he thought there was some danger in these very elaborate conditions being attached, hidden conditions as it were. He was not altogether happy, he said, but would not put it further than that.
29-vehicle Renewal
THE" bone of contention "—as it was 'described by the applicant's barrister, Mr. Richard Yorke—to put an additional 25-ton low-loader into Hull, went no further at a Yorkshire licensing hearing at Bridlington on Wednesday. Sayers Haulage (Hull) Ltd. made application to renew 29 vehicles on A licences and to add the articulated vehicle and two lowloading trailers. Objectors were B.R.S. (Pickfords) Ltd., L. V. Brookbanks of Hedon, and Elliott Haulage Ltd. of York.
Mr. Yorke, for Sayers Haulage, said that the application was in two parts and while he wished the licence renewal to go through he was satisfied from the evidence that he could not proceed with the application to add the additional heavy vehicle.
The deputy Authority renewed the A licence for 27 tippers, one platform vehicle, one flat tractor and one trailer.