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Appeal for Licence to Beat Docks Delays

26th November 1965
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niFFICULTIES presented by the

current dock situation led a Birmingham haulier to apply for the licensing of two additional vehicles, the Transport Tribunal was told on Tuesday.

A. Grainger (Smethwick) Ltd., appealed to the Tribunal against the refusal of the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority to grant an application for two artics on A licence to be kept in London. The vehicles would operate within a 30-mile radius on collection-and-delivery work.

Respondents were British Railways and the Transport Holding Company. A decision was reserved.

For the appellants, Mr. M. H. JacksonLipkin said that because Grainger did not have any collection-and-delivery vehicles in London, almost £5,000 of unnecessary charges were passed on to customers in the 12 months up to last March.

With the present situation a trunk vehicle sent to London was stuck in the docks for at least a day. In this way Grainger lost a long-distance lorry for a day "in the quicksands of London ", and the company wanted to use the two vehicles to collect and deliver to the docks whilst the trunk vehicle was in the queue.

Mr. George Mercer, for the respondents, said the case was concerned with difficulties which might bear no relation to the number of vehicles needed in London. At the previous hearing the Licensing Authorities had been asked to make a grant "on generalities ", he said.

Submitting that the appellant had not presented an adequate case, he said Grainger wanted to word the licence "in a satisfactory way for emergencies without clear evidence as to what was required over the respective period of the licence ".

Part Grant on B

AT Liverpool last week the North Western Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, granted in part a B-licence application by Craddock Bros., of Coven, Wolverhampton. The company sought two artics and four flats with conditions: "All goods as required within 25 miles of base at Bootle." The LA granted two flats with conditions: "Goods for H. Diaper and Co. Ltd., within 10 miles."


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