Grant for Urgent Lots
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IN Manchester last week. M. and M. 1 Hauliers Ltd., of Manchester, were granted a new B licence, as applied for, by Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, the North Western deputy Licensing Authority. The application was for one vehicle to carry "Consignments of small and urgently required deliveries as required. on behalf of applicant's existing A-licensed customers".
For the applicant. Mr. J. Backhouse said the A-licensed fleet was seven flats and two articulated vehicles with a wide normal user but for one flat. They were fully employed, with receipts of some £75,000 per annum, with hiring at 140,000. All the vehicles were large and there was need for a small one with a 2-ton capacity, to carry mainly urgent consignments, 75 per cent of which were for two customers. Asked by Mr. Joiliffe the reason for a B application, cit. Mr. Backhouse indicated that his clients required the vehicle to carry service spares and so on.
A director of M. and M., Mr. J. R. Evans. said it was not possible to hire a small vehicle; they had been using vehicles with eight to 10 tons capacity for small lots, the customer standing the extra cost, which had led to complaints. The vehicle was mainly for the use of Keystone Paint and Varnish Co. and Carborundum Co., but it should be at the disposal of other customers.
On Mr. W. H. Ashmore, for BR, submittine that it would defeat the object of the anplication unless any grant were restricted to two named customers, the deputy LA had Mr. Evans recalled to give an undertaking that the vehicle would primarily be used for Keystone Paint and Varnish Co. and the Ca rbo rundu m company.