Customers Will Not Send Witnesses
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THE habit of some big organizations of not sending witnesses to inquiries, thereby severely prejudicing applicants.. was criticized by Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at Wrexham, last week. S. Boswell and Sons. Queensferry, applied_ to vary their A licence by adding two new oil-engined six-wheelers (11 tons) and deleting two vehicles (8:k tons).
The application was part-heard in November and was adjourned for the attendance of two customer witnesses.
Mr. G. P. Crowe, for Boswell and Sons, said the policy of the companies concerned. Tunnel Portland Cement Co., Ltd., Hope. near Mold. and John Summers and Sons. Ltd., Shotton, was not to send witnesses. The applicants had been able to obtain only letters.
Mr. H. M. Webb, for the British Transport Commission, said that the witnesses for whose attendance the case had been adjourned were not in court and an additional witness had taken the case no further. The railways carried a great deal for both concerns, Mr. Crowe submitted that this was an A-licence application. Although it might be necessary to substantiate every customer for a B .licence, here, if it was established that one customer had suffered inconvenience, the applicants were entitled to the extension. The figures also proved a need for additional facilities.
Mr. Lindsay granted the deletion and added only one vehicle.
B.R.S. SEEK RECRUITS
TO interest boys in road transport as a career, British Road Services will have a stand at the Schoolboys'. Own Exhibition which opens at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London, on Mon-. day. Models of different types of vehicle will be shown and a driver will be in attendance on the stand.