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Travelling gentlemen require licences too
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"TRAVELLING gentlemen" — itinerant scrap-metal dealers — belong in the licensing system. And the West Midlands Licensing Authority has said he Intends to make every effort to get them licensed, as he thinks it is in the public interest.
LA Arthur Crabtree made this clear last week when three "travelling gentlemen" applied for new restricted licences at Birmingham.
In the first case Charlie Gaskin of Hill House, Pattlow, Birmingham Road, Stratfordon-Avon, said that he required a vehicle for his scrap metal business.
Mr Crabtree said there had been a satisfactory technical check and the application was in order apart from evidence concerning Mr Gaskin's financial resources.
He granted a licence for 12 months after Mr Gaskin had said he had £200 in cash on him and that he had been operating the vehicle for three years.
After hearing in the second case that there had also been a satisfactory check on the vehicle belonging to Frederick Price of No 13 Caravan, Limehouses Caravan Site, Golden hill, Stoke-on-Trent, Mr Crabtree said he found that "travelling gentlemen" usually kept their vehicles in very good order — something he was very glad about.
After Mr Crabtree had said that the problem here was again finance — Mr Price was perhaps keeping his money under his pillow for something? — Mr Price said his wife slept on it. He was granted a licence for 12 months after saying that he had a couple of thousand pounds.
In the third case, the application by James Smith, of Pingle Cottage, Hollington Lane, Stramshall, Uttoxeter, was refused when he failed to appear.
The application was opposed by East Staffordshire District Council, who told the LA that the owner of the proposed operating centre had said that Mr Smith had not been seen at the site since before last Christmas. The Council was opposing because there was no planning permission and the owner of the site had said that he had no intention of allowing Mr Smith to operate from there.
After outlining his policy to the Council, Mr Crabtree said that in this particular case he had no alternative but to refuse the application.