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Details Needed for Special A Renewals

2nd May 1958, Page 67
2nd May 1958
Page 67
Page 67, 2nd May 1958 — Details Needed for Special A Renewals
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nPERATORS' associations' ate MIT 1.-of advised of the information that the Licensing Authorities will require when special A licences come up for renewal.. The following details were likely, to be needed even if no objections were lodged, said a notice sent out by the North Western Licensing Authority on Tuesday.

If no change of base is sought, the applicant Will have to confirm that his operations during the currency of the special A licence have been undertaken from that base. If a new base is desired, reasons in justification must be given.

If required, the applicant will have to justify his normal user, either on the basis of work done during the currency of the licence or of his future -intentions. That normal user did not have to be specified to obtain a special A licence, was not a ground for inserting "General goods, Great Britain" as an answer to question 7 on form GV1A.

An applicant should be able to show that a vehicle has been commercially' occupied (apart from withdrawals from service for repair, or maintenance) by supplying certified details for at least 12 months of monthly tonnages carried, monthly mileage, gross earnings par month and amounts paid to sub-contractors each month.

COSTLY VEHICLES SHOULD HAVE FULL WORK

AHAULIER could net be expected to spend large sums on special vehicles unless they were guaranteed full employment, the North' Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, was-told at Manchester on Tuesday, when T. Burton (Rhodes), Ltd., " applied to add three vehicles to their B licence for the carriage of ash from Chadderton B and Ageeroft power stations. _ Mr. A. Burton, a director, said that the company were granted the B licence in June, -1956, for two tippers for the ash work. They had special bodies and cost .£6,000 each. The work was on behalf of Stephenson, Clark, Ltd., ash-disposal agents for the Central Electricity Authority.

An additional condition of "coal for Stephenson, Clark, Ltd., within 50 miles," had been granted to be used only when the ash work was slack. They were asking for similar conditiops for the additional vehicles, which had been on short-term licence since February.

Questioned by Mr. H. Robinson, for two road objectors, Mr. Burton said not more than 25 loads of coal had been carried during the past 12 months.

Mr. Robinson said the objection by R. Heaton and Sons, Ltd., and T. Unsworth and Sons (Wigan), Ltd., was purely against the coal condition. Both companies had tippers standing idle, and these large vehicles should not be made available for coal carrying.

An objection by' British Railways was withdrawn, arid the application was granted.


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