Offer to Surrender Unused Vehicle W HEN Mr. J. R. Entwistle,
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Hindley, applied to Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, on Tuesday to add two vehicles to his A licence, he offered to surrender a contract-A-licence vehicle which had ceased to be operated in December last.
Mr. J. A. Dunkerley, for the applicant, said that he had three A-licence and three special-A-licence vehicles working mainly for Remploy, Ltd., and the Hilton Engineering Co., Ltd. They were fully occupied and Hilton, who employed the contract vehicle, needed more facilities.
Mr. Entwistle told Mr. P. Kershaw, for the railways, who objected, that he did not sub-contract work, as he could not find suitable vehicles. He had not thought it worth while to include furniture removals on his normal user as he did only 10 removals a month, and these only since the special A licence was acquired last June.
Mr. Kershaw submitted that the applicant had said he was no longer interested in removals when he made an A-licence application in January last year. He had now gone back to this work without including it in his normal user, and it was significant that operators who engaged in removals and had objected to Mr. Entwistle's previous application had not appeared in this latest case.
Mr. J. Greenhouse, transport manager of Hilton Engineering, stated that rail containers could not accommodate large loads of mattress frames which the applicant's vans could carry. The hearing was adjourned.
In • January last year Mr. Entwistle applied for five extra A-licence vehicles, offering to surrender two contract vehicles working for Hilton and four for Remploy. Evidence was given that, after twice failing to be granted an A licence, Mr. Entwistle started with a contract vehicle in 1954, to which another was added in 1955.
An A licence was subsequently granted for these vehicles on the undertaking that more contract vehicles would not be put on the road. Work for Remploy, however, grew and six further contract vehicles were introduced between July, 1955, and June, 1956. In March, 1956, Mr. Entwistle applied for three additional A-licence vehicles and was granted one.
The Authority, who was told that it was necessary for the vehicles to be-interchangeable between Hilton and Remploy, adjourned the hearing until June,nwhen Col. C. Erlund, national transport controller of Remploy, stated that they were not interested in Mr. EntwistIe's attempts to convert contract into public licences.
REMOVERS COMBINE IN DEBATE THE Lancashire-Cheshire, Lincoln1 shire, Midland and Yorkshire branches of the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry recently combined to hold a meeting at Sheffield to discuss current problems of the trade. It is believed to have been the first of its kind in the north.