Conversion Appeals
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That was so with Wilson-Singer Ltd. (Metropolitan T.A., 8/11/62), who wanted to carry television and film equipment and properties for the numerous offspring of a parent company; and with Slater Transport Ltd. of Thornton-le-Dale, Yorks, who likewise succeeded in getting authority to carry for a parent company and subsidiaries.
By distantly related reasoning. W. Barnes and Sons, who let out road rollers from a base at Radcliffe, near Manchester, had little difficulty in getting the Tribunal to allow them to carry, in their low-loader, plant for other contractors working at the same sites. Again, in the case concerning Walker Bros. (Cowdenbeath) Ltd. (Scottish T.A., 2/11/62), Walker's had two vehicles on Contract A to Whatlings, contractors. They wanted to continue with Whatlings and also to carry building goods required by Whatlings but which, it was said, not being Whatlings' property, could not be carried under Contract A.
Operating flexibility has, indeed, been one of the objectives in most conversion appeals. In some it was the primary purpose. Take these three examples:
British Railways Board and Transport Holding Co. v Ham Wharfage Ltd. (Metropolitan T.A., 26/2/63). The Wharfage company, whose contract was with Mars Ltd., the confectioners, wanted to add two Contract A artics to their open A fleet, with a normal user of general goods, so as to be able to operate more economically and efficiently. The addition of one of the two vehicles was authorized.
Evan Cook Ltd. v B.R. Board and Transport Holding Co. (Metropolitan TA., 14/11/63). Here was a different kind of conversion. The proposal was to give up three open A vehicles of Evan Cook Transport Ltd. and 25 B vehicles with a curiously mixed" bag of conditions in exchange for a B licence for the whole 28 vehicles to carry "general goods, including furniture and effe,cts of all descriptions, whether as removals or otherwise, any distance ". The idea was to make the whole fleet interchangeable