"Blow Large Hole in Licensing System"
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AHAULAGE contractor was told by Sir Hubert Hull, president of the Transport Tribunal, in London on Tuesday that if he were allowed to keep his present licence "it would blow too large a hole in the licensing system as we know it."
The Tribunal allowed an appeal by the British Transport Commission against the grant of an A licence to Mr. H. 0. Thompson, Egerton Street, New Brighton, by the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority. The order would not come into effect until the end of the year, and Sir Hubert said that if an application for a new licence had not been heard by that time Mr. Thompson should be given a short-term licence to provide for any delay.
Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for the Commission, said that Mr. Thompson formerly operated under a B licence carrying for concerns engaged in the sale of surplus Government stores. He had wanted an A licence to carry return loads.
The Tribunal .heard from Mr. Thompson that he had one vehicle which he drove himself. He had no intention of taking work from the B.T.C.
Sir Hubert observed that the Authority could not have realized the far-reaching effect of his decision. It would mean that everyone would be entitled to say: " I am not doing too well, but I would do better if you made my, licence an A."
Allowing the appeal, the president said that the Authority was probably moved in some measure by sympathy. But in deciding these matters regard must be made of the Act and, in particular, to the principles employed in the past.
AUTHORITY'S DECISION UPHELD
AN appeal by the British Transport Commission to the Transport Tribunal against the West Midland Licensing Authority's grant of an A licence to Mr. R. A. Bradbury, Leek, Staffs, in substitution for a special A, was dismissed on Tuesday. Sir Hubert Hull, president, said that reasons would be given later.
Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for the B.T.C., said that Mr. Bradbury had been running the vehicle concerned at Eccles as a subcontractor. Goods were not carried from Leek, although this had been given as the base.
"Here is a man applying in an area which is not appropriate to the traffic he is proposing to carry," said Mr. Beames. Potential objectors in the North Western Area knew nothing until the vehicle was in use.
Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for the respondent, stated that it would not have been possible for any place other than Leek to have been declared as the base.
U.S. BATTERY INTEREST
THE United States had shown interest in the company's Pg traction battery, said Mr. John Oldham, chairman, Oldham and Son, Ltd., at their Motor Show dinner in London last week.