One Law for Road Another for Rail ?
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A LETTER has been sent from A.R.O. Yorkshire Area headquarters to the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority (Mr. E. Russell Gurney) concerning a .decision which he gave on a licence application that was heard by him at York, on Friday,
January S. . • Messrs. T. Cook and Sons, hauliers, of Manor House, Kirbymoorside, applied for authority to substitute for a vehicle' with a redeclared unladen weight of 2 tons 9 cwt. 3 qrs., operated under an A licence, a 21-ton vehicle to be acquired. Mr. F. G. Bibbings, Yorkshire Area Secretary of A.R.O., who appeared for the applicants, stated that the vehicle which it was proposed to acquire would carry loads identical with those transported by the one in possession.
Raising a point of procedure, the L.N.E. Railway Co. asked that the application should not be granted, in view of the fact that the applicants had lodged notice of appeal against a previous decision of the Licensing Authority not to allow them to acquire two additional vehicles! (6 tons).
Mr. Gurney said he would authorize the replacement reques‘d, for a period of three months, by the end of which period the appeal referred to would, no doubt, have been heard.
It is understood, that, in the. communication which A.R.O. has addressed to the Deputy Licensing Authority, this decisiop is contrasted with one which he gaire a few weeks ago. On that occasior he granted an application by the L.X.E.R. for permission to operate additional vehicles at the York base. !
There were no objlections to the latter application, but,lat the hearing, Mr. Bibbing submitted that, as road interests had given nfitice of appeal against a previous ;grant to the L.N.E.R. of additional tormaige at the company's York base, the hearing of the application before the 'court should be adjourned pending the result of the appeal. Mr. Gurney did not accede to the request for an adjournment. .