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Western L.A. Warns Woman Owner
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PAA WOMAN who used two C-licensed vehicles for hire or reward was told by the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, at Bristol, last Monday that the practice was illegal and must cease. Her application for a new licence for six additional vehicles was refused.
Mrs. E. M. Parker of Patchway, Bristol, made the application through her husband who told the Authority that his wife held three vehicles on C licence for business as a market gardener.
Mr. J. McGregor Johnson, for the applicant, said his client wanted to amend the normal user so that she could provide a regular service for wholesale fruit merchants in Bristol who sent their produce to Nottingham, Newcastle under Lyme and other places in the North and Midlands, as well as to Oxford and South Wales. The merchants had difficulty in getting transport, said Mr. Johnson, and he called three wholesale fruit merchants to say they had used Mrs. Parker's transport and found it satisfactory.
Mr. Parker said he was formerly transport manager for James Transport. Replying to Mr. T. D. Corpe, for a number of independent objectors, he said the application was made in the name of his wife because she owned the business. He was transport manager. Witness said his wife had a van on C licence and then acquired two more vehicles on C licence to carry fruit and vegetables for Bristol fruit merchants. James Transport was taken over by F. Cook and Son, Winterbourne, Bristol, while he was employed by them. He did not agree that the rates charged by his wife were ridiculous. He was aware that Cooks had offered to do the work for the Bristol merchants at economic rates.
Mr. Parker agreed that he started two other clearing houses after leaving James Transport, and one of them ended up in liquidation. He also agreed that several hauliers had lost money through one of the companies.
Witness agreed with Mr. Nelson that he had carried 10-ton loads on a 3-ton 8-cwt. lorry.
Mr. Corpe submitted that the law had been deliberately flouted. The vehicles had been used for a purpose for which they were not intended.
Announcing his decision, Mr. Nelson said it would be idle to pretend that he had not ,taken into account the extraordinary actions of Mr. Parker. Mrs. Parker was the nominal holder of the C licences but Mr. Parker must have known what he was doing when the vehicles were used for hire or reward. This sort of thing made a laughing stock of the Road Traffic Act. He was quite satisfied that there was plenty of transport available in Bristol to do this work. He was also satisfied the two C licences were not required and he must have an assurance that they would not be used again for hire or reward. The application for six new vehicles would be refused.