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Appeal Withdrawal Offer
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vVHEN F. Davies (St. Helens), Ltd., applied to Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at Liverpool, last week, to add two vehicles and two trailers to their A licence, they undertook, if they succeeded, to withdraw the appeal against the refusal of their application made in January. As reported in The Commercial Motor on January 18, this application had been rejected because of insufficient evidence of increasing business.
Mr. Lindsay said that the application should not be prejudged by the use of a transcript of a previous application to question the company's evidence. The previous proceedings were not relevant.
Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley, for the British Transport Commission, had suggested that the application should not be granted unless the company's position had deteriorated since the previous hearing.
Mr. E. Jones, for Davies, said that they had 26 vehicles and 20 trailers under licence. The main plank of the present application was fruit and vegetable traffic from the Vale of Evesham to Liverpool and Manchester. British Road Services had previously dealt with this, but their facilities ceased because of denationalization. The applicants had no depot at Evesham.
There were no other hauliers in the arca. Customers were pressing Davies to do more work for them. Demands were so heavy that vehicles had no time for return loads to Evesham to be found. Extra trailers were also required to deal with congestion at Liverpool docks.
Mr. Wrottesley said that he would call evidence to show that there was an overnight rail service from Eveshant to Liverpool. Many B.R.S. customers had transferred to it.
The hearing was adjourned.