Licence Objections Invalidated
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A PPEALS by 19 small transport ra operators in the South West of Scotland were dismissed on a technical point, by the Transport Tribunal in Edinburgh on Tuesday. The operators were objectors against a decision granting an A licence to Road Services (Caledonian), Ltd., in respect of more than 100 vehicles based at Dumfries, Stranraer, Lockerbie and Abington.
For Road Services, Ltd., Mr. C. Jauncey successfully claimed that the appeals were incompetent because they were signed by a solicitor and not by the objectors in person. Sir Hubert Hull, president of the Tribunal, ruled the appeals were invalid. He said, however, that it was competent for a solicitor to sign on behalf of a company and allowed the appeal to proceed of one appellant, M. Thom and Son, Ltd.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Thom's, said there was no justification for the very wide "normal user" given to Road Services (Caledonian), Ltd. "What they had been given," he said, "is a completely free hand to take whatever they want, wherever they want,. without let or hindrance."
Sir Hubert, summing-up, said that anything the firm did must be within the limits of the normal user and the Licensing Authority was authorized to grant their application.
The Tribunal, however, allowed Thom's appeal in respect of four delivery vans based at Dumfries for which, he said, an A licence should not he granted.