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R.H.E. "Blacklist" Annis: Trailer Hiring Banned
Page 63
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AN instruction to the manager of the Southampton group of the .Road Haulage Executive to. refuse to hire low-loading trailers to Annis and Co., Hayes, Middx., was read before the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, last week, when the company applied for permission to add two 20-ton trailers and one 45-ton vehicle tO existing licences.
The objectors, the Railway Executive aod the R.H.E., wished to prove that the Appeal Tribunal had been correct in believing that Annis and Co. had too many vehicles and that accusations that work passed to Pickfords (Special Traffics Division) had been subject to delays, were unfounded.
For the applicant, 'Mr. H. R. Leonard indicated that the heavy haulage and indivisible-load work carried out by Annis and Co. had increased in the past two years. Vehicles Were being worked seven days a week. In reply to a suggestion by Mr. A. W. Balne, representing the R.H.E., that higher rates were largely responsible for the increased turn-over on the heavy haulage side, Mr. F. Annis stated that his rates had gone up by '10-15 per Cent. since 1949. " Because of the scandalous way your people hold the country to ransom," he continued, "we could charge whatever we liked."
Mr. L. L. Baker, formerly group manager, R.H.E., Southampton, the first witness for Annis and Co., desciibcd
how the letter instructing him to refuse to hire trailers to Annis and Co., had been sent to the applicant to explain why it was necessary to refute a request for a trailer. The letter read: "-Incase ensure that this concern [Annis and Co.] does not hire any vehicles from your group. . . This attitude should be adopted because of licensing procedure." The letter was dated August 15, 1950.
The most serious charge against the Special Traffics Division of the Pickfords organization was made by Mr. H. Pounds, of Messrs. 1-1. G. and H. F. Pounds, Portsmouth, ship-breakers. He described occasions when the firm needed heavy-haulage facilities at short notice because boilers from ships, or cranes purchased from dockyards, for example, had to be removed quickly under penalty of confiscation. Otherwise the boilers or cranes had to be broken up on the site for scrap.
On one occasion the Southampton depot of the K.H.E. had he said, taken six months to remove one crane. In reply, Mr. Balne declared that no clear instructions to carry out the work had been issued by Messrs. Pounds to the Southampton office of the R.H.E.
After five witnesses had been examined, the hearing was adjourned until April 30 to enable Annis's accountant and the south-western divisional inanaeer of the R.H.E. to be called.