B Licence Appeal Dismissed
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RiTISEI ROAD SERVICES and
_British Railways. opposed an appeal to the Transport" Tribunal: in London, ' hist week, by a Copthorne (Sussex) haulier againit a decision of the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority; who refused to change the conditions of a B licence for the carriage of . general goods. The appeal was dismissed by the Tribunal.
F. Snelling Ltd., of Copthorne Bank, near Crawley, had asked the deputy L.A. to amend the conditions of two B licences to allow a fleet of nine vehicles to carry general goods within 80 miles. The vehicles were originally restricted to .carrying agricultural products and requisites within 35 miles and road making and building plant and materials within 30 miles.
The deputy L.A. granted an -80-mile radius in respect of one B licence for four vehicles only, but authorized no change in the commodities to be carried,
Mr. M. Thorpe, for the appellant company, told the Tribunal they were now asking that all nine B-licensed vehicles should have the same conditions—agricultural products and requisites, roadmaking and building plant and materials, Within an 80-mile radius. Mr. Thorpe said the company also held an A licence, authorizing 10 vehicles to carry general goods mainly within' 200 miles. The company had suffered considerable difficulties • in the organization and running of its fleet 'and had the B fleet been licensed for a greater radius, it would have been able to get out of the difficulties.
Mr. R. M. Yorke, for B.R.S., said the fact that the deputy L.A.: had been very sympathetic by giving the company something, was no case now for extending that generosity. Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley, for British Railways, added that the deputy LA.'S .decision was correct, if not a little generous..
Giving • the . Tribunal's decision, the president, Mr. G. D. Squibb, said they were prepared to accept it was right to give the appellants some assistance, but found themselves unable to say that the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority was wrong in refusing to extend that assistance to include the whole nine vehicles.