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Great Britain sought, Scotland gained
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REMOVAL contractors in the sparsely populated districts in Scotland have special problems, the Transport Tribunal was told in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Sutherlands Furnishing Stores, of Wick, Caithness, was appealing against the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority's refusal to extend the conditions of a removals van from "county of Caithness" to "Great Britain"—as already applied to another van.
For the appellants, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said it was thoroughly bad licensing to limit the van when there was work for it outside the Caithness borders. It was even worse to restrict it because of objections by operators with vehicles based 120 miles away. He was referring to the respondents, THC (Pickfords) based at Inverness.
Mr. J. B. T. Loudon, for Pickfords, said that in areas of widely scattered population, firms had to cover a tremendous catclunent area to succeed.
The president, Mr. G. D. Squibb, said the deputy LA had seen grounds for granting an extension within Scotland, but had thought that the objectors had shown sufficient vehicle availability. The Tribunal agreed that there was no ground for the wider conditions sought but, in view of the distances involved in this part of Scotland, would allow the appeal to the extent of permitting the vehicle to operate throughout Scotland.