User Changed: Applicant Warned
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THE importance of giving a correct I. description of normal user when renewing an A licence was illustrated at Liverpool on Tuesday when Messrs. C. A. Hulme, Liverpool, applied to add the carriage of pit props to the conditions of their B licence. The application was withdrawn after Mr. A. W. BaIne, objecting for British Railways, had submitted to the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, that there had been a complete and undeclared change of normal user of the applicant's A-lieence vehicle.
Mr. E. A. Whitehead said that in addition to the B licence, the ,applicant had two A-licence vehicles engaged primarily in the carriage of pit props. The reason for the application was an increase in this work, which involved delivery from yards at Ditton, Delamere Forest and Acton Grange, Warrington, to collieries within 40 miles.
Many of the pits, particularly in the Burnley-Accrington area, were not rail;:onnected. Each made its own arrangements. The maximum number of standards of timber which could be loaded on a normal vehicle was only two and the rate of 54s. 10d. a standard to Burnley was uneconomic for subcontract.
The applicant's own vehicles were fitted with socketed pillars enabling up to four standards to be carried. Although the A-licence vehicles were overworked, the B-licence vehicle was under-utilized.
Mr. Balne submitted that at the last A-licence renewal in August this year, pit props were not included in the normal user and the whole character of the business had recently changed.
Questioning Mr. C A. Hulrne, Mr. Lindsay commented that in 1948, 1952 and on June 12, 1957, Mr. Hulme had signed the renewal form which specified the normal user. There was no mention of pit props, although it was now stated to be the main work.
Mr. Hulme replied that he had always understood that an A licence was open.
Mr. Lindsay said the matter would be reported and Mr, frulme must make himself acquainted with the requirements of the 1933 Act.