Refusal Not Natural, says Appellant

3rd May 1957, Page 71

3rd May 1957

Page 71

Page 71, 3rd May 1957 — Refusal Not Natural, says Appellant

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APPEAL1NG to the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday against the refusal by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority to allow him a

licence for a lorry, Mr. W. G. Murray, of Badgers Cross, Eltham, declared: "It doesn't seem natural to me. I can't see how anyone could refuse. People want me to drive a lorry, I want to drive a lorry—that's as far as I can see it."

Mr. Hubert Hull, president, told him: "That is a good broad view and sounds sensible to a lot of people. Before 1933 that was the law. Anyone could drive a lorry for anybody. Now the law is different and before a licence is granted all sorts of things have to be proved."

Mr. Murray said that for years he and a Mr. Duggan had been using a lorry, the present one they owned having been bought by them jointly, although the licence was in Mr. Duggan's name. He had been running the lorry while Mr. Duggan was ill and when the licence expired last August he had sought to have it placed in his name. This had been refused.

The lorry carried goods for two Eltham concerns, Rotaro, Ltd., and Finswede Wood, Ltd. Both these companies were now using the vehicle with a C licence.

Mr. Hull told Mr. Murray that he had provided insufficient detail as to earnings. Mr. Murray said he could supply the information, and Mr. Hull said the Tribunal would take the unusual course of adjourning the appeal to allow him to produce it.