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BRITISH TELECOM's claim that it did not need a goods vehic operator's licence for its 356 purpose-built vehicles used for ere+ ing telegraph poles failed in the High Court in London last week. Telecom had argued that the vehicles, which were fitted with crane-like arm and power-driven auger, were not goods vehicl within the meaning of the 1968 Transport Act. But Lord Justice Ormrod and Mr Justice Woolf, sitting in ti Queen's Bench Divisional Court, said the vehicles were goo vehicles as they were capable of carrying telegraph poles.
They allowed an appeal by the Licensing Authority against ChE ter magistrates last June acquitting Telecom — then the Post Offi — of using a pole-laying vehicle at Holyhead, Gwynedd, withoul licence, while it was carrying six poles.
The judges ordered the case to be sent back to the magistrat with a direction to convict.