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FIVE TRANSPORTERS FOR AVON
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AT Birmingham last week Avon Car Transporters Ltd., Solihull, successfully applied to add five transporters to their existing B licence, giving them a total fleet of 15. Mr. R. Hall, the West Midland deputy Licensing Authority, ordered "for export only" to be added to the condition sought: "Completely assembled cars and light commercial vehicles from the Rover Co. Ltd." Although the objectors may have made out a case of availability, said Mr. Hall, he had decided to make a grant to the applicants in the public interest. At a previous hearing in October, Mr. W. R. J. Warren, director of the applicant company, had stated that because of a trade union restriction that only Birmingham drivers could .be used for transporters carrying Rover cars out of the Solihull works, it was almost impossible to sub-contract work to companies not in the Birmingham area. For Avon, Mr. Jackson-Lipkin said the company had taken over the C-licensed fleet of the Rover company when they had decided to stop operating transporters. A short-term licence was granted at the previous hearing. The vehicles were doing the same work as when they had been on C licence, delivering Rover cars to the docks. A witness for the Progressive Group of companies, who were objecting, claimed that his group had 160 vehicles available for the work that short-term-licensed vehicles were doing. He alleged that the traffic at present being undertaken by Avon could be done adequately by 10-1 vehicles.