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Decision reserved on dual application
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• The Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, on Tuesday reserved his decision on the two applications made by Chase Removals Ltd., for 10 A licences in substitution.
Mr. P. Kenworthy-Browne, for the applicant company, explained that the total shareholding in Chase Removals was to be acquired by H. Stodell and Co. Ltd. At present, eight vehicles in the Chase fleet were on an A licence in the name of Mr. H. Wernher, who died in July 1966, and a further two vehicles were operating under a licence in the name of Mrs. Wernher. It was intended to have all the vehicles in the name of the recently incorporated company to facilitate their acquisition by Stodell.
Mr. Muir expressed concern at the fact that Stodell was a company with a poor maintenance record. But it was because of Stodell's lack of premises where maintenance could be carried out, said Mr. KenworthyBrowne, that the company had decided to take over Chase Removals.
Mr. L. T. Dew, Stodell transport manager, said he had been loaned to Chase and was now working full-time for that company. Although Stodell's vehicles were maintained on Chase's premises, the two fleets worked separately; Mrs. Wernher was in full control of her own company.
When asked about the frequency of vehicle maintenance and inspection, Mr. Dew said that each vehicle was comprehensively serviced once every four weeks,
One of the fleet of 28 pantechnicons, on BMC FJ chassis, from Longvalley Transport Ltd. with which Fir View Furniture Co. Ltd. is to offer an express delivery service to all parts of the country. A transport division is being set up and a manager and drivers are being appointed. The vehicles carry the Fir View red and white livery.
and was inspected after each journey.
It was confirmed by Mr. L. Stodell that the takeover by his company was primarily considered because it was the only way that new premises of the sort that Chase owned could be acquired.
Mr. Muir reserved his decision pending the production of certified figures relating to the sub-contracted work which was being done to compensate for the non-use of two of the vehicles.