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'Parties Should Negotiate'

21st January 1966
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

NEARLY £5,000 had been spent by Rows Transport (Muirkirk) Ltd. to sustain the haulage business formerly operated by Mr. J. E. Baker (Jnr.), yet Adrian Haulage Ltd., now sought to get the benefit of the Baker business whilst Rowe's "whistled for their money".

This was said by Mr. R. Yorke on Tuesday when (on behalf of Rowe's) he applied successfully to the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, to make representations in an unopposed application by Adrian Haulage to take over the licences and business of Baker and Barons and Carpenter Ltd. The LA reserved his decision.

Mr. M. H. Jackson-Lipkin, for Adrian Haulage. said that arrangements were made last October by Mrs. Baker and SBS (Transport) Ltd. for the continuance of the business and it had been intended that Rowe's Transport should take over control.

When it was found that the transfer to Mr. Rowe's company was unlikely to be approved in view of 39 convictions, two suspensions and some immediate prohibitions, Adrian Haulage, a company substantially controlled by Mrs. Baker, was formed.

Rowe's Transport had kept the business in being and claimed at least £4,882 was due to them, said Mr. Yorke. They had issued a writ in the High Court for this sum but it would not help them if they got 'a judgment and "a mere 6d. in the pound" in the upshot. "It could not have been the LA's intention" when the proposed arrangements were approved, said counsel, that these consequences should follow.

It was submitted by Mr. Jackson-Lipkin that Mr. Yorke's representation was not a proper application. It was not concerned with the Road Traffic Act, being purely a matter of contract. Rowe's were not objecting to the application. Because of the decline in business the eight vehicles sought by Adrian would be reduced to five. Mr. Yorke said Rowe's had to pay off existing debts and incur others to keep the business going. There would have been no application by Adrian had they not done so.

The LA said the matter was clearly "ripe for negotiation" between the parties and offered to hold up any action if there was any chance of them coming together. Pending his decision the short-term licences were still current.


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