Told to Tighten Up Organization
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AWITNESS supporting an application for two additional vehicles on A licence, by Mr. Robert Drummond, East Mains Street, Armadale, at Edinburgh. last week, was told by Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, that he should tighten-up his transport organization.
Mr. William Buchanan, representing Lewis Berger (Scotland), Ltd., was speaking of the need for prompt deliveries of paint because of keen competition when Mr. Quin said: "Do you seriously suggest that you can telephone at 9.30 a.m. and expect vehicles the same day? It is time you tightened up your organization and gave operators better notice."
Mr. R. C. B. Currie, for the applicant, said that one Band seven A-licensed vehicles were operated. Hiring had risen from £800, in 1957, to £2,000, in 1959. Total earnings had also increased during that period. For William Low and Co., Ltd., retail chain grocers, Mr. Robert Anderson spoke of the need for urgent deliveries in the highly competitive food trade. Mr. George Crook, representing the West Lothian Steel Foundry, also supported the application and gave evidence of expansion in the steel industry.
For British Road Services, who opposed, Mr. D. Brown said that there were adequate facilities in the area and that recent cases indicated that H.R.S. had available capacity in the Bathgate area, two miles from Armadale. He pointed out that it was admitted by supporting witnesses that unsatisfactory use of B.R.S. facilities had occurred three years previously.
Refusing the application, Mr. Quin said that the evidence had been singularly unconvincing and that there had not been one instance of inconvenience to justify additional facilities.