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Deputy L.A. Calls For Investigation
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f HAVE never come across such an I unsatisfactory state of affairs," the Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, said at Gloucester last week when he refused an application by Rolie Haulage Co., of Lydney, Glos, to operate a tipper under a B licence to carry scrap rubber waste for Tyre Products, Ltd., 50 miles, and road-making and building Materials 25 miles.
Mrs. R. J. Kean, who described herself as a sleeping partner in the firm, told the Deputy Authority that her partner, a Mr. Smith, who was employed at a tyre company, was unable to make the application because his employers had refused him leave of absence. The vehicle, she said, was at present being operated locally carrying waste rubber for two firms "on licences supplied by these firms."
Questioned by Mr. Macdonald, Mrs. Kean denied any knowledge of the vehicle being currently licensed in the West Midlands area. The firm had only the one vehicle but it was registered and was operated only in Gloucester.
Mr. R. A. Webb, objecting for British Railways, said he understood the vehicle was licensed last November in the West Midlands area to carry road making materials for A. Monk and Co., Ltd., within 25 miles of Whittington, in connection with the Birmingham-Bristol Motorway.
Mrs. Kean said her partner had never mentioned this to her. To her knowledge the vehicle only carried shale and waste rubber locally, and two local companies had sent witnesses to " sponsor " the application. She and her partner employed the driver and paid him, and the vehicle was working under licences belonging to the local firms. Everything was left to the driver.
Mr. Macdonald: "Well, this becomes more mysterious. Let's hear what the witnesses have to say. It is clear you do not know much about it."
Witnesses from Tyre Products, Ltd., Lydney, and the Watts Tyre Rubber Company said that they had employed the vehicle in question during the past few months, and wished to continue.
After hearing a submission by Mr. Webb that it appeared that the vehicle was carrying out work locally without a licence, Mr. Macdonald said the matter would have to be investigated.
"We will have to have a proper statement from them as to what licence this vehicle is operating under at the present moment," he said. "If it has not a licence, we want to know what it has been doing in its unlicensed capacity, and why it has been doing it. We shall have to consider, if it is working illegally, whether to prosecute."
Mr. Macdonald warned Mrs. Kean to advise her partner, if he was in fact doing anything irregular, to stop using the vehicle at once. "It only makes the offence worse," he concluded.