"Dr. Jekyll" Appears as " Mr. Hyde"
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Qg that °erasion, learned counsel Dr. Jekyll made submissions to the Tribunal which are entirely different from those to-day made by learned counsel Mr. Hyde,"
Mr. T. D. Corpe made this tilt at Mr. E. Gilbert Woodward (for the applicant), when Huxham and Co., of Coxside, Plymouth, applied to the Western Licensing Authority, last week, ler the renewal of an A licence, with the addition of four vehicles (9 tons 12 cwt.) to be based at Plymouth, and a 2-ton vehicle for Bristol.
When he made the caustic comment reported above, Mr. Corpe (for one of the objectors, the Coastwise Shipping Road Traffic Committee) was referring to Mr. Woodward's arguments on behalf of the railways before the Appeal Tribunal in a second Hawker case.
Mr. Woodward explained that the application was based on an expansion of business, and produced what he described as "model" figures for a haulier's application for additional tonnage. Altogether 14 different analyses were submitted during the course of evidence.
They included particulars of customers' business lost due to difficulty in hiring in Plymouth and extracts from drivers' records, showing that the existing vehicles were fully occupied.
The objectors, which included the railways, submitted that the Huxbam company had changed the nature of its business from short-distance to longdistance work.
Decisionwas reserved.