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AN appeal to the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday by Jay-Pee (Transportation), Ltd., Kerfoot Street, Warrington, against a decision of the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority was dismissed. Respondents were the British Transport Commission and 10 Warrington hauliers.
The Authority had refused to vary the appellants' A licence in respect of four vehicles at present used under contract-A licence by Gyproc Products, Ltd., West Horton. Jay-Pee had said that they would surrender the contractA licence if an open A licence were granted.
Dismissing the appeal, Mr. N. L. C. Macaskie, Q.C., acting president, said that there did not appear to be any genuine desire on the part of Gyproc to change present arrangements, ".The Licensing Authority is entitled to look and exercise his discretion very carefully because of the possibility of the licensing facilities afforded by the 1933 Act being abused. A contract-A licence is granted without question to an applicant whose history is clean, but that is not to be regarded as a back door' to getting a public-A 'licence merely because the contract-A customer has been persuaded, with the possibility of the reduction in the rates, to support an application," he said.
Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for JayPee, said that the four vehicles concerned had carried only about 5 per cent. return loads of goods from Gyproc's other factories. They could not take advantage of loads from the factories of associated companies of Gyproc, which were situated all over the country, because the parent company's shareholding in Gyproc did not amount to 90 per cent.
Appellants and Gyproc were anxious to avoid the uneconomic running of the four. empty vehicles on return journeys through being unable to secure return loads. Gyproc were anxious that the licence should become a public-A because more return loads would mean cheaper rates.
LONDON BUSMEN REJECT 5s, PAY. OFFER
DELEGATES representing London's 53,000 bus workers on Tuesday rejected as "totally inadequate" an increase in pay of 5s a week offered by the London Transport Executive. They had claimed an extra £1 a week.
At the same time, they decided to ask the general executive council of the Transport and General Workers' Union to grant them full plenary powers in future negotiations. This would give them power to strike without reference to the Union's executive. The council will consider the request next week.
Mr. F. Coyle, national secretary of the Union's road passenger transport group, said on Tuesday: "They do not like the offer because they feel that it is totally inadequate."