Bid Fails for Lack of Witness
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BECAUSE of the alleged attitude of I.C.I. Ltd. in refusing to send a witness to the hearing to support an application, a West Midland operator, C. H. Lambe and Sons Ltd. was refused authorization to substitute an attic in place of a tipper on a B licence.
Mr. L. J. Lambe, managing director of the applicant company, said that there were two reasons for the substitution. His company needed more body space for the traffic of Clement Bros., Bromsgrove. By the use of step-frame trailers it would be easier to load heavier and awkward sections. Another reason was to provide a spare tractor and trailer to give a quicker turnround for salt that was being carried on an A-licensed trailer.
Asked by the West Midland deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. R. Hall, if a witness from I.C.I. was to give supporting evidence about salt traffic, Mr. Lambe said that he had been told that it was not the practice of I.C.I. to send witnesses.
Asked by Mr. Hail whether it was within his knowledge that I.C.I. took the line that they would not appear, Mr. N. Carless, for the applicant, replied that he had only once known them to supply a witness in the area.
Mr. Hall: "It is contemptuous, in the first place, to suggest that their needs are being met."
Mr. Carless: "They adopt this attitude because they say that if they come for one applicant they would have to come for everybody." Interjected the deputy Authority: "But if it is right to come for one then it is right to come for the others."
Mr. Carless said he understood that wished to be impartial. It was unfortunate, he said, that the application had to founder upon the rock of the The deputy Authority refused the application because, he said, he could only grant applications upon evidence.
Contract-to-B Grant THE speed at which motor vehicle spare parts were required to be transported from Birmingham to the Ford Motor Company's factories at Dagenham, Southampton and Liverpool, plus the fact that several manufacturers wished to utilize their partly filled vehicles, were given as reasons why Potters Service Station (Saltley) Ltd. wanted to switch five contract A vehicles to B licences. The company successfully applied to the West Midland deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. R. Hall, at Birmingham on Tuesday.
After hearing two prospective customers' representatives state that they had ceased to use B.R.S. (objecting) because it could not meet their requirements, Mr. Hall said that the traffic courts had to serve industry. In making the grant he had taken into account that some of the cars on the assembly lines were urgently required for export.