Take-overApplicat ion Cut From 16 to 9
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PAA 16-VEHICLE take-over application was cut down by seven in London last week when Mr. C. J. Macdonald, the Metropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority, described the affairs of the vendors, J. Gates and Sons, Ltd., as being in a "fine old muddle."
He was not prepared to grant an A licence for any more than the number of vehicles regularly used before the agreement for sale was drawn up. The normal user of the vehicles in the licence of the applicants, R. Butcher (London), Ltd., 35 Cock Lane, E.C.I, will be " meat from Smithfield Market."
Mr. R. 'Butcher, a director of the applicant company, told the Authority that since the beginning of the year he had been regularly using five vehicles authorized to Gates and Sons, Ltd., which previously had been on hire to him. Until it had been explained to him, he did not realize that it was wrong to do this. Some 25 new customers had been obtained since January.
Asked by Mr. Macdonald about five vehicles formerly on the R. Butcher licence which were added to the Gates licence in November, 1961, Mr. Butcher said that they had been replaced in his own company's licence and agreed that they were included in the schedule of vehicles in the agreement for sale.