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Swanwick suspended
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• Maintenace problems have led South Eastern Licensing Authority Brigadier Michael Turner to suspend the licence held by Southampton-based Swanwick Construction for three months.
At a public inquiry in Portsmouth, vehicle examiner Richard Britten said he had issued 15 prohibition notices to the company's vehicles since 1987. Some prohibitions had been varied and clearance had been refused. The company had twice been convicted of using vehicles with defective brakes, and a recent maintenance investigation had resulted in a number of immediate and delayed prohibitions. For the company, Colin Ward said it had relied on a fitter who clearly had not be doing his job. The fitter con cerned had been replaced.
Some of the inspection an testing work had been contracted out and the new fittl was proving to be much mol efficient, said Ward.
Suspending the licence, ai cutting it to expire at the en of next October, Turner sail he was not convinced that it was just a matter of poor in agement; he felt that the dir tors of the company had tot; disregarded public safety.
Turner directed that the vehicles on the company's Ii cence should not be used or any other Operator's Licenc during the suspension perio(