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Change from C to A Licence Contested

31st October 1958
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Page 40, 31st October 1958 — Change from C to A Licence Contested
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WHEN E. E. Howes Transport, Ltd., IN appealed before the Transport Tribunal in London, last week, against the refusal by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority to add to their A licence six articulated low-loaders and two platform lorries currently working under C-hire to .Enfield Cables, Ltd., Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon, for the British Transport Commission, said that Howes •did not wish to deal with more cable traffic on • outward runs but to carry unspecified return loads about which no one knew anything. . Mr. M. V. Argyle,. for Howes, submitted that the vehicles were worked for 824. per cent. of their time, but if they tinder nder A licence one would .become .surplus to the requirements of Enfield Cables. It could then be more economically used for other customers. Enfield Cables supported Howes. The Authority, said Mr. Argyle, appeared to think that the applicatioo had some relation to the Allison principle, but, he. stated, the appellants had made a straightforward case based on public need. Mr. Samuel-Gibbon said that there had been no evidence as to whether Howes would be given more or less work if an A licence were granted. Decision was reserved.

MATINEES STAGGERED TO MISS EVENING RUSH DESPONDING to the appeal to IN. stagger hours, the London Palladium theatre are to hold their matinee performances of their Christmas pantomime from 2.45-5.50 p.m., so that departing audiences will not join the 5.30-p.m. rush. The committee concerned with staggering hours in London reported last week that 290 central London employers had co-operated with them, so that the 5.30-p.m. peak had been depressed by 10,000 travellers. It was felt that -more companies had adopted staggered hours since the bus strike. A new survey has been started, so that the working times of 509,000 people can be analysed.

DOUBLE WHITE LINES DOUBLE WHITE LINES

DRAFT regulations on painting double white lines on roads throughout the country have been sent to representative organizations, and when comments have been received by the Minister of Transport and the Scottish Secretary of State

• they will take decisions upon the form

• that regulations should take. This information was given by the Minister in the House of Commons last week.

"NO ADVERTISING" DECISION

SOUTHPORT has decided not to follow Blackpool's example in allowing exterior advertising on corporation buses. The transport committee has rejected a £12,375 quotation from an advertising concern to cover a five-year period. Southport operates 55 buses.

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