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AN application to the Metropolitan Licensing Authority by Gavagan Transport Ltd., haulier -based at Greenford, was withdrawn on Monday after the B.T.C: submitted that the form of application was invalid. The company was applying for an A licence for three articulated vehicles for the carriage of steel reinforcements, concrete and waterproof lining paper. Nine other local haulage contractors, British Railways and British Road Services objected to the application. Mr. J. M. Timmons. for B.T.C., said that the application was invalid because the company did not exist when the application was submitted to the office of the Licensing Authority on August 16. When Mr. Anthony Gavagan signed the application form as a director. the company had not been incorporated. Mr. M. H. Jackson-Lipkin, for thp company, said that on August 16, its solicitors submitted the application form signed by Mr. Gavagan to the Licensing Authority. They also sent a letter explaining that the company was in process of incorporation. He . said that the Licensing Authority's office had been notified of the position at the time the application . was lodged. The deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, said: "These technical points are in order but I cannot help feeling sometimes that we waste a lot of time by presSing them too far ". Mr. Timmons said that the application must be made in the proper way and Mt. Macdonald ruled that it could not proceed in its present form. He advised the company to withdraw the application and make a fresh one on the right lines.