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• West Midland LA John Mervyn Pugh has warned that even though vehicles under 3.5 tonnes do not require an 0licence, defects could still affect a company's licence. They have to be maintained as carefully as vehicles on an 0-licence.
In spite of the warning, he granted Nuneaton based Godiva Stone. trading as Godiva/ Williams, a new restricted licence for four vehicles and five trailers.
The LA had adjourned an application in January, saying that if the financial position did not improve he would have to refuse to grant a licence.
It first came before the LA in September 1994, when he was told that director Maurice Williams had run a successful business, but had been made bankrupt after being injured in an accident. Williams maintained that the company's financial position was now very strong.
He said that as well as local authority work, they had recently won a contract from Mowlem for work on the Coventry bypass.
They now only worked for people who would pay them. All was going well and a workshop was almost complete. They had put the recommended system of maintenance into operation and all their vehicles had passed fresh MoT tests.
Granting a full licence, Mervyn Pugh said the company seemed to have got over its problems.