What's in a comma?
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DRITIST-.1 Railways and British Road Services objected to a -1-3 comma in a haulier's application in Manchester last week and three learned gentlemen spent half an hour trying to encourage the deputy Licensing Authority to remove or leave in the vital punctuation mark. F. Ingham and Co. Ltd., of Stockport, was applying for its five-vehicle A licence to be renewed with a normal user which includes ". . . steel, scaffolding equipment . . .". It all revolved round whether the original licence enabled the firm to carry steel and scaffolding or whether the objectors at a previous hearing had been successful in objecting to steel being included on the firm's normal user as a separate item. As the previous deputy had requested the firm's normal user to be investigated at the following hearing, its A licence was only renewed, without alteration, for two years. No doubt the battle of the comma will be fought again in due course.