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Check on Goods `Mini-buses'
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EiNFORCEIVIENT officers of the 1-4 Metropolitan Licensing Authority's office were on Monday and Tuesday checking all goods-carrying minibuses" working in and out of London Airport. They have also been checking similar vehicles in London markets.
One of the operators concerned. Roy Bowles Transport Ltd., told The Commercial Motor that his company's vehicles were being stopped inside the airport and enforcement officers were opening the back doors, apparently checking to see whether they were fitted with seats, and endeavouring to ascertain what was being carried. They had issued the drivers with small green paper discs to stick. on their windscreens to show, apparently, that they had been checked.
An official at the Licensing Authority's office, asked whether a census was being made at the airport, told The Commercial Motor that observations were being made at the airport " merely to see exactly what is going on." (As reported in this journal last week, the Transport Tribunal refused an appeal by Roy Bowles Transport Ltd. against the refusal of the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority to grant B licences for its mini-buses. The case is reviewed in "Licensing Casebook" on page 46 of this issue.)