Application Bedevilled by Previous Case
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PrE refusal of the Metropolitan Licensng Authority to grant an A licence to an East London haulier was a " myopic phenomena ", said Mr. M. H. JacksonLipkin at the Transport Tribunal last week.
He was appealing on behalf of F. M. Dawson and Co., of Walthamstow, against the Authority's refusal in November last year to grant the company two additional vehicles on A licence and a change of the normal user.
He was also appealing .against the Authority's refusal to allow the company to substitute a vehicle of increased tonnage.
Mr. Jackson-Lipkin said it was a simple case. Dawson was part of a group of four companies who worked together and had contracts for Press work, carrying paper drums and printers' ink. As a result of the increase in this work, other customers had suffered and the application was to enable the group to provide its customers with proper facilities.
"However, the Licensing Authority and the British Transport Commission suffered from a severe case of hypnosis," said Mr. Jackson-Lipkin.
He said that a day had been set aside for the hearing of another Dawson application (The Commercial Motor, October 12, 1962) at which a main witness had not appeared. The application on which he was now appealing had followed and it was in this atmosphere that the hearing had been conducted.
The appeal was continued yesterday.