Paid £500: Refused Take-over Grant
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A MAN who had paid £500 for a PAS-licensed vehicle and coal merchant's business was last week refused permission to take over the licence by Mr. J. H. A. Randolph, Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority. He was Mr. Louis Jones, Beancroft Street, Castleford.
Mr. Jones said the business formerly belonged to Mr. S. Speight, Orion View. Leeds, and the vehicle was restricted to a small area round Leeds on nearly all the conditions, which meant that he could not extend to Castleford, although the vehicle was kept there. On short-term licence he had been running under one more liberal condition for a construction company, but they had now gone over to C licence.
Mr. Randolph said there was now nothing left to take over, so the application would be refused.
Mr. Jones: "What about my £500 which I have paid for Speight's business?"
Mr. Randolph: "You should have had the agreement worded so that a certain figure was for goodwill and a figure for the vehicle. That is your own fault."
R.H.A. COMPLAINT OF ROAD CHECK DELAYS 'THE national executive committee of I the Road Haulage Association were asked at their meeting on Wednesday to make representations to the Minister of Transport against the "inordinate delays" caused to vehicles by examinations on the road.
The Metropolitan and South Eastern Area suggested that police officers and Ministry of Transport examiners halting vOticles on the road for examination should be required to stop no greater number than could be examined in a reasonable time.
CALL FOR EARLY REVIEW OF P.T.
ANOTHER attack on purchase tax on goods-vehicle chassis was delivered when the Finance Bill received its third reading in the House of Commons last week.
Mr. R. Gresham Cooke (Cons., Twickenham) hoped that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would give definite and fairly early priority to a review of this lax. It was wholly foreign to the conception of purchase tax as a consumer tax and unnecessarily added to the delivered cost of goods.
Although the Chancellor might say that he could not afford at the moment to surrender the tax, because it brought in E14m. gross a year, over the years he received only 47+ per cent. of that amount—the rest was lost on initial and annual depreciation allowances.
TOWING: M.P.s APPROACHED
ALL towing vehicles should have a secondary means for securing trailers, according to the Merseyside Area Accident Prevention Federation. Last week the Federation decided to send this suggestion to all local /VI.P.s and to their own national committee.
NEW BY-PASS PLANNED
AGRANT of 1185,000 has been made by the Minister of Transport towards the cost of the proposed Marchwood by-pass in Hampshire. The road will cost £300,000 and will start on the A35 road near Totton, run south-west of Marchwood, and join the Totton-Fawley road south-cast of Marchwood.
About 3+ miles long, the by-pass will have a 24-ft. carriageway. There will be a new bridge where it crosses a railway.