Meads Decision After Bristow
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WHEN the appeal by the British Transport Commission against the grant of a B licence for two collection and delivery vehicles to S, J. Meads Transport Ltd., Earl Road, Bermondsey, by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority was resumed before the Transport Tribunal last week, the president said that judgment would not be given until the Tribunal had decided Upon the appeal of the Commission in the case of C. Bristow, Ltd., 123 Solebay Street, London, E.3.
As reported in The Commercial Motor dated April I, the Authority had granted an A licence for six vehicles to C. Bristow, Ltd. Earlier proceedings in the Meads appeal were reported in the issue dated March 25.
Mr, D. L. McDonnell, for Meads, said that the company's vehicles were " pretty fully " employed. Difficulties had been experienced in delivering from the London terminal of their trunk services, and in order to meet demands two A-licensed vehicles had been used. This caused inconvenience to old customers and Meads had lost one of them. •
"If they had not used these two vehicles they would have had goods coming into London on their trunk services whioh they could not have coped with," said Mr. McDonnell. He added that the Commission objected that if a B licence were granted facilities would be irk:excess of requirements.
Mr. C. R. Beddingtem, for the Commission, had stated earlier that the respondents had bought 16 vehicles from British Road Services, 15 of which had special A licences. The company had successfully operated trunk services between London and Manchester and London and Birmingham.
Mr. Beddington had suggested that there was no reliable evidence of the amount of traffic requiring collection and delivery. The Commission could carry traffic offered to the respondents on trunk services, or could provide collection and delivery services.