"Special A" Buyers Told: "Be Careful" ,
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("RANTING a haulier's request for a `s-i. public A licence to replace his special A. Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, warned at Carlisle, on Tuesday, that the case should not be
treated . as .a precedent. Special-A operators could not claim a specific right to a . public A when their licences
expired, he said: Unless 'they could prove that the vehicle Was being .usefullYemployed it was doubtful if tIceir aPplicatiOns Would
suceee:d. • '_. . •
%-. Wilfred Biciwn,"--Thursby, near Carlisle, said he a:cemited his special A on December .2 last year and it expired March 17. He nOw waiitea a public A instead; and he 'produced figures to show that the vehicle had been • usefully employed since December.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, who represented him, was asked by Mr. Hanlon: "Suppose he buys a special A licence today and works the vehicle all day to the North of England and in Southern Scotland, then comes along for a full A licence?"
Mr. Wardlaw: "That is a question being posed to me from all quarters."
Mr. Hanlon: "Well, I am posing it to myself."
Mr. F. H. McHugh, for the British Transport Commission, said that in this case it did not appear that a redundant vehicle was being brought into the industry, so a licence could be granted. But it should not create a precedent.
Mr. Wardlaw submitted that if the Authority was satisfied that there was an actual going concern connected with the licence—even on such figures as Mr. Brown had produced—the haulier was entitled to a grant. There was nothing in the Acts which gave operators an absolute right to renewal, but he thought Parliament had envisaged renewals on expiry.
Mr. Hanlon replied that applicants should be careful. "People who are buying special A licences must produce some evidence that there is a business. If a man turns up after acquiring a special A licence and there is no business, he won't get a licence."
However, he thought that in Mr. Brown's case there was a business, so the application would be granted.
PLASTICS MILK TANKS
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A RANGE of plastics milk tanks is being produced in America by the Heil Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and a novelty is that the tanks are rectangular in section, giving a low centre of gravity and low overall height.
These new tanks are known as LowLite, and they are said to be lighter than the original elliptical plastics tanks introduced by the same company five years ago. The tanks have solidly bonded walls and V bottoms with rounded corners to give fast and complete drainage. They are said to withstand temperature changes and are claimed not to discolour, stain or rust.