Car Transporters in Appeal Case
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A DVANTAGES of delivering new
cars from the works on a special transporter, compared with direct driver-delivery under trade plates, were mentioned before the Transport [Appeal] Tribunal last week.
W. F. Horn, Ltd., Coventry, appealed against a ruling by the West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority that a transporter be limited to carrying export cars to the docks. Mr. J. Ross, for the appellants, said that the restriction prevented cars for the home market being delivered by transporter.
At present, the appellants delivered about 140 cars a week under their own power. Mr. Horn had told the Authority that last year he paid £6,000 in insurance premiums and total claims for accidents came to £12,000. For each set of trade plates the premium was £60 a year, plus £50 excess on each accident when the company delivered 35,000 cars a year.
The company were running for the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., two transporters under contract A licences. The direct driver service would be wound up when sufficient trans porters were obtained.
For the British Transport Commission, who responded, Mr. R. D. A. Grant said that the appellants should be restricted to carrying from Coventry and nearby towns without conveying return loads.
The Tribunal varied the condition of the licence to allow cars to be delivered anywhere in the country.