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Praise, not punishment
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• The South Wales LA, Mr R. R. Jackson, decided to take no action against the 126vehicle licence of S. Harfoot and Sons Ltd of Barry when the company appeared in Cardiff last week under Section 69. Instead, he congratulated the director of the company, Mr D. Harfoot, and the firm's representative, Mr C. Rosser John, on the way the case had been presented.
The company had been called to appear because of 28 faults itemized on prohibitions issued during the past 17 months. Mr Harfoot told the LA that 110 vehicles had been operated during the 17 months and these were engaged in delivery and collection of goods from sites of all kinds and also in the carriage of open cast coal. The firm had four depots under a foreman and there were two service vans at each depot. During the period 2,800,000 miles were covered by the vehicles and £80,000 had been spent on spares, £47,000 on tyres and £70,000 on wages for fitting staff.
Referring to the prohibitions Mr Harfoot said that in many cases light faults were featured on the notices. He said that the company bought bulbs by the gross and had tried tank and aircraft bulbs in an effort to cut down the breakages.
The LA commented that it seemed to be an indictment of bulb manufacturers that an operator was in danger of losing his licence because of faulty bulbs.
In his final submission to the LA Mr Rosser John said that the vehicles were operated on very bad sites in many instances but that everthing was being done to avoid faults. It would seem he said, that a fitter should be posted at the entrance to every site if anything approaching perfection was to be achieved.
In giving his decision Mr Jackson said that he was satisfied with the evidence he had heard and considered it would be quite wrong to suspend or curtail the licence.