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'What is Central Scotland?'
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• The Scottish deputy LA, Mr. L. A. Wells, at Perth this week, suspended for six months from September 15, two vehicles belonging to Mr. R. S. Pimie of Pitlochry.
The question of what is Central Scotland was again raised by Mr. Wells, who said that an examination of Mr. Pimie's records from April 5 to July 6 this year showed that of a total of 522 journeys, 184, or 35 per cent, had been outside the declaration of normal user of his licences.
Mr. Thomas H. F. Myles, for Mr. Pirnie, said Mr. Pirnie's were very old licences, originally granted well before the 19391945 war. His base was at Pitlochry, and in his original submission of normal user he had obviously taken a different view to that of Mr. Wells of what Central Scotland meant. What might appear to be Central Scotland to a man with a base in Grangemouth could be quite a different matter for one in Pitlochry or indeed even in Blair Atholl. he contended. One would find many people throughout Scotland who would give one a local and very earnestly believed definition of where Central Scotland was.
Quoting a journey from Pitlochry to Huntly. Mr. Wells said: would have thought one would have to stretch one's imagination a great deal to make Huntly within any definition of Central Scotland."
Mr. Myles said that in his submission, on Mr. Pirnie's original interpretation, those areas, all being south of the Caledonian Canal and north of the Forth and Clyde Canal, were in Central Scotland.
"I cannot persuade myself," said Mr. Wells "that anybody taking any objective view can possibly say that places like Alness, Peterhead, Hawick, Alford, and Stonehaven can by any reasonable definition be in Central Scotland."
On new applications he insisted on a precise geographical description of the area in which it was desired to carry traffic, and one would have thought, he said, that having been warned very clearly on January 25, the least Mr. Pimie could have done would have been to put in an application to regularize the position.
He could not avoid the view that this had been a deliberate breach of normal user, and he regarded the suspension of two vehicles for six months as extremely lenient.