Short-term Grant for Nil Long-load Work
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A FOURTEEN-DAY short-term A ft licence, pending a decision, was granted by the East Midland deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. R. M. Ellis, at Nottingham on Monday to L. Smith (Ruckland) Ltd., of Heanor, Derbyshire. This was at the conclusion of an application hearing which had lasted two days. involving an addition of two articulated vehicles with specially constructed trailers to carry bridge sections for MI extension between Crick and Markfield.
During the first day's hearing the
objectors —British Railways, B.R.S. (Pickfords) Ltd., Bowmer and Kirkland Ltd. and Stone and Ogan Ltd.—referred to photographs showing beams on a vehicle belonging to the applicant's associated company, Heanor Coal and Haulage Ltd. (The Commercial Motor, June 14.) Giving evidence about this on Monday, Mr. K. Searson, managing director of the applicant company, said that the two firms occupied the same office and shared the same telephone and administrative staff. The Heanor lorry had been used only for demonstration purposes.
Mr. J. Searson, son of the managing
director, explained the fact that a vehicle in Heanor colours had been seen carrying 36-ft. and 60-ft. long bridge sections by saying that it had originally been ordered by that firm, but when it was delivered a Buckland lorry was due for replacement and the new vehicle was therefore licensed under the Smith (Buckland) licence. There had been no time to repaint it. he said.
Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley. for British Railways, said that the solution was for a B licence to be granted. The fact that one of the customers had been given a quotation on Heanor notepaper for the carrying of the beams might not be sinister. But the fact that a Heanor vehicle was used for test purposes showed that the use of a Heanor vehicle was contemplated.
Mr. John Langham, for the applicants, said that his client was prepared to modify the terms of the application to carry indivisible loads of portal-type concrete beanis, all to be within the Construction and Use Regulations as to weight. The current licence expired in October, and he suggested that a shortterm licence be granted until then.