L. A. Warns Two Young Applicants
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TW0 young men who applied to the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, at Bristol last Monday for contract A licences so that they could engage in haulage work for specified quarry firms, were warned by Mr. Nelson that they might find themselves in some difficulty if the work did not prove satisfactory.
One quarry owner said they had entered into a contract with two people in March of last year, but the men (who were to be paid £100 a month) threw in their hand and the company were now in dire need of more transport.
Granting the application of D. E. Tingle, of Westbury on Trym, Bristol, Mr. Nelson told the quarry owner, Mr. Michael Gordon, that if it should happen that, through no fault of the holder of the contract licence, he could not continue with the work, he would not be prepared to grant further contract licences.
The second applicant, Mr. V. Mountain, of Cirencester, said he was buying two vehicles on hire-purchase. He had held a short-term licence to do work for the Cirencester Asphalt Co.. but the contract would finish at the end of the present month and he had signed another contract with Ivan Randell, for whom he had previously worked, under which he was to be paid a minimum of £80 a month. He was satisfied with that.
Addressing the applicant, Mr. Nelson said: "1 feel it my duty to tell you that this firm in the last three years have entered into contracts with a considerable number of hauliers, mostly young men, and that in many instances the licences did not run their full course. I do not blame the firm for that. I want to be satisfied that applicants know what they are doing and that they will not
come back a little later on and ask for something else."
Replying to a question from Mr. Nelson, Mr. Mountain said that last year he had two contract licences with Randells. These did not run the full term because he (and other hauliers) discovered that the work to be done was really of a seasonal nature.
Mr. Nelson remarked that there were indications that the firm were now prepared to support applications for B licences. Mr. Mountain pointed out that Randells had said that they would hold him to his contract.
The applicant was told that no licences would be granted until the full period of the contract licence had expired, Mr. Nelson stating that it appeared obvious that none of the other hauliers would have left if there had been regular work to do.
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