Protection for Experimental Service
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PROTECTION ought to be extended to an existing operator of specialized vehicles, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, ruled on Wednesday, when he refused an application by a Luton tipper operator, C. Firbank and Son Ltd., to vary a B licence by adding two Dempster Dumpsters, conditioned to carry commercial waste and rubbish within 20 miles radius.
For the applicant, Mr. J. W. Weir said that Eirbank wanted to provide service in the area using the Dempster Durnpster system, leaving containers at customers' premises to be collected by special vehicles equipped to carry the containers and empty them at local tips. The company contemplated using 18 containers with the two vehicles at an initial capital outlay of £14,500.
Representations were made on behalf of F. and R. Cawley and Son of Luton, who last October were granted a twovehicle licence to operate two similar vehicles. Miss E. Havers, for Cawley, submitted that the case was similar to other experimental or new ventures that had come before the Authority recently, such as applications for refrigerated vehicles in place of insulated vehicles. Her client had found, after being granted two vehicles, that there was not nearly as great a demand for the service as anticipated. Cawley had only operated one vehicle and was on the point of ordering a second.
Refusing the application, Mr. Muir said that Cawley had done all it could to make the existence of its specialized system known, and only now was beginning to get traffic. To licence a competitor locally at this Stage would be unfair and unrealistic.