When Unit Base May be Changed
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A LICENSING AUTHORITY is ti understood to have indicated in general terms the circumstances in which he would allow the base of a transport unit bought from the British Transport Commission to be changed.
His statement suggests that under normal conditions a unit might be removed a distance of 30-40 miles, or, in certain circumstances, even 50 miles. In the latter case the proposed move was one where the depot from which the unit was to be acquired and the proposed new base. were along the same main trunk road.
The circumstances of each case would, to some extent be governed by,geography. If, for instance, a river, which could not be crossed without a substantial detour, separated the old and proposed new bases, the transfer would probably not be authorized, although the distance between them in a straight line might be only two or three miles.