Standard Conditions for B Licensee
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AN application by T. T. Walker, Ltd., of Newbum, Northumberland, to amend the normal user of 35 B-licensed vehicles and to add another, was granted by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday.
For the applicants, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said that the application was in two parts—first his clients wanted to add one vehicle, and secondly they wished to vary the conditions attached to all their B licences to enable them to carry general goods 'within 100 miles of Newburn. The application was annotated to the effect that, if granted, a limited B licence in the name of E. Hilton, Ltd. (the whole of the issued share capital of which was held by the applicants) would be surrIndered. Altogether, the application involved 35 vehicles at present working under 11 different sets of conditions.
Mr. Hanlon's Idea
Mr, Wardlaw said that it was Mr. Hanlon himself who had suggested to the late Mr. Walker that something should be done to " tidy up" the conditions. Unfortunately, while the whole situation was under review and an application was being prepared, Mr. Walker, senior, had died. Subsequently, his son, Mr. Thomas Walker, who was now the managing director of the company, appeared before Mr. Hanlon at an inquiry, knd once again Mr. Hanlon had expressed the view that some attempt should be made to co-ordinate the conditions. It was with that object in view that the application was now submitted.
Objections had been received from the British Transport Commission and 10 independent operators but complete agreement had been reached. Thus the applicants wished to amend the conditions in respect of 25 of the vehicles, totalling 852 tons unladen. to: " General goods, Northern traffic area, butcher's offal, bones and by-products between Newcastle district and central Scotland, Lancashire and the London, area. Goods for Donald Ireland, Ltd:, 80 miles." The remaining 10 vehicles (of 311 tons) to be: "Goods for Central Electricity Authority for Northern rail-connected collieries and stocking sites within 30 miles; road and building materials; agricultural produce and requisites including livestock 35 miles; opencast coal to screens and coal to and from stocking grounds, 30 miles, and other goods 15 miles."
Looking at the application form, Mr. Hanlon asked: "How do we know which are tippers and which are not? " He said that there was a habit in some quarters of putting in the make. of a vehicle when the form specifically asked for the type of vehicle to be specified. This could not be accepted—it did pot mean anything. Vehicles should he described as to their number of wheels and type.
Mr. Wardlaw said that the applicants would forward to the Authority a list giving each vehicle's registration number, the unladen weight, the type and number of wheels—all the vehicles concerned were tippers with the exception of two, and all were four-wheelers.
Giving formal evidence, Mr. 'Thomas Walker said that the amended proposed. user, which divided the fleet into two groups, would be of great assistance and would not create too much difficulty. With regard to the vehicle on the Hilton licence, they proposed to let the company "die."