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1SPITE the fact that two of the main independent objectors had withdrawn from the ease, the strong L1-LA.-backed opposition Was continued at last Vs adjourned hearing of an application by H. 1. Huyton, Ltd., of Liverpool, were applying for an A licence for 16 vehicles totalling 67+ tons, to operate ;.1. a. normal user of "General goods, Great Britain as sub-contractors to ad H. Transport Services (Peckham), Ltd."
er and Gordon, Ltd., and Jay Pee ort, Ltd., withdrew their objecleaving the British Transport ission and f ou r independent
s as objectors to the application. he previous hearing in December, plicants told the North Western r Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, that 4uyton's were taken over by J. and import in March, 1960, it was disd that not only were the vehicles ad state, requiring, in most cases, ng, but they were being operated any. They were working for 3ne customer—Turners Asbestos, on a "contract A licence basis," ng empty from outward destinahaving abandoned their previous I user. J. and H. Transport had iately stopped the illegal operatnd, as a result, Turners Asbestos ught other operators.
t of last week's hearing was taken ith supporting evidence from ter witnesses, one of whom, Mr. Briggs of Kodak, Ltd., said that H. had never lost any of their or had any stolen—his company )t take out special insurance for nsportation of their goods by road they would be "very anxious " if they discovered that J. and H. ub-contracting any of their goods. d that he had succeeded in getting of their suppliers to use J. and H. iort to bring goods into their r, so that Kodak could back-load H. vehicles. He did not consider n's to be a sub-contractor.
Mr. W. A. Heymann, managing director of Huyton's and J. and H. Transport, said that he did not .see the need to contact the Licensing Authority after. the Turners Asbestos traffic had been taken away from them and the vehicles operated under a general user. "If I go to the Manchester office and ask for a normal user of what the vehicles are authorized to do and I am given a piece of paper with it on, I stick to it," he added.
Both Mr. Heymann and a co-director, Mr. H. A. Jeune, J. and H.'s Liverpool depot manager, admitted in evidence that, at the time of the Huyton takeover they were very ignorant" about licensing..,_ The application, which is expected to last another full day, was adjourned to a date in early March.