Gloucestershire haulier refused
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• It was an offence to lend a licence disc or certificates, said Mr. J. C. Samuel-Gibbon, the Western LA, at a public inquiry in Cheltenham on Wednesday when considering an application by Clarke and Son Transport Ltd., Cinderford, to extend its normal user. The LA said that Mr. W. J. Thomas, managing director of the firm, had been convicted of two such offences and fined £100 and costs. The application was refused on the grounds of non-appearance and the applicant's past conduct.
"I have to look at the matter closely" said the LA. -The conviction is against Mr. Thomas, not Clarke and Son Transport Ltd., of which at the material time he was managing director. In a case of this sort where the application is by a limited company and •in which I know Mr. Thomas to have been the mind and 'brain of the company, it would be
quite wrong in the absence of very strong argument not to take past conduct into account. As this is an offence deliberate in its nature and in complete contempt of the licensing system, it would be wholly wrong for me to make a grant. My proper course is to refuse the application."