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Vehicles Licensed in West Came Into South Wales, Tribunal Told
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FOUR South Wales hauliers objected, on appeal to the Tribunal, to a decision of the Western Licensing Authority granting an additional 9-ton articulated vehicle on ordinary A licence to J. Smith (Bicknor), Ltd.
Mr. C. R. Beddington appeared on behalf of the four companies—I. Cresswell (Ebbw Vale), lad., E. B. Rees, Ltd.. F. A. Parfitt (Transport), Ltd., and J. M. Watkins—and Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon appeared on behalf. of the respondents.
Mr. Beddington told the Tribunal that the public inquiry into the application for three additional vehicles was held on December 30. The Licensing Authority granted one vehicle, the normal use being mainly to carry culverts, machinery, and scrap.
The respondents, he'said, were hauliers in the Forest of Dean area close to the South Wales border. They entered the haulage business in 1954 with vehicles on special A licence. At the time of the application they had built up a fleet of
28 vehicles, 21 on A licence and seven on B.
He submitted that the documentary evidence of the inquiry was unsatisfactory. It was extremely confusing. In May' last year, said Mr. Beddington, exactly seven months before the public inquiry, there had been another inquiry in which the respondents were granted three additional vehicles of maximum carrying capacity.
It was plain that Smith's vehicles went into South Wales and competed for traffic with the local hauliers, whom he represented.
" At the time of this inquiry, in December, it was far tooloon for the Licensing Authority to be able to assess the effect of his recent grant of additional tonnage to the respondents. The application and the decision were both premature," he said.
There were also various unsatisfactory features in the conduct of the inquiry. There were various aspects which were quite undesirable and would call for some comment from the Tribunal
For the respondents, Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon said Mr. Beddington based his case on an attack on the figures produced, taking into account the fact that three vehicles granted only seven months before the public inquiry did not come into operation in time to appear fully in the figures. But, he said, customer witnesses had given evidence of recent difficulties in acquiring transport at times after the three vehicles came into operation. The last of the three vehicles came into operation in December last, but one witness spoke of wanting to clear his factory just before Christmas and Smiths were unable to help.
The Tribunal reserved its decision.
RISE FOR WINCANTON MEN nASIC pay rates for workers employed 1-1 by the Wincanton Transport and Engineering Co., Ltd., have been increased by I ls. a week.