Adjournment granted to study costs
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• Because an application was submitted as a new one, but was published as a variation. and because the objectors felt that complicated figures should be submitted to them earlier than the day of the hearing itself, a low-loader application was adjourned in Leeds last week.
Elliott (Hauliers) Ltd., Rufforth, York, was seeking to place an Ilt-ton low-loader on open A-licence with the same normal user as its existing vehicles. The vehicle, with a 25/30 ton carrying capacity, had been under contract to Priestman Brothers Ltd., excavation machinery manufacturers of Hull since the end of the war and until May of this year. It was now on short-term B-licence pending this application, said Mr. P. Kenny, for the applicant.
It was proposed that the vehicle would continue operating in Priestman colours for whom there was no reduction in the volume of work being done, but any spare capacity would be used for maintenance purposes in relation to the five other vehicles of this class the company owned and for carrying plant for its sister companies who were also engaged in plant hire.
Mr. Kenny understood that Pickfords Ltd. and British Road Services would withdraw their objection if the vehicle was placed on B-licence or under a restricted normal user, but Elliott was an A-licence operator and wished to fully utilize the fleet, he argued.
For the objectors, Mr. J. M. Bosomworth, read out the fleet's normal user and said he felt the work detailed by Mr. Kenny as that to be done by the vehicle was not in accordance with it. He said it was the third time that figures and financial statements had been submitted by this applicant on the day of the hearing and where a case was based entirely on figures, as was this one, careful study was necessary.
Accordingly he would ask for an adjournment. This was granted by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Mr. H. E. Robson, who hoped agreement might be reached in the interim.