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Vehicle Deleted: Now Wanted Back
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QEVEN months after having a vehicle deleted because it was not in use, W. R. and H. Cross, Great Barr, Birmingham, applied last week to have it restored to their A licence. Mr. W. P. James, West Midland Licensing Authority, adjourned the case for further evidence.
Mr. Foley Egginton, for Cross, said the present licence for one vehicle was granted in June with a normal user of: " Castings, bricks, pumps, heating and constructional equipment, Midlands, Liverpool, London and Birkenhead."
They now sought a second vehicle for: "Steel products for G.K.N. Reinforcements, Ltd., Smethwick, as required, and sawn timber for M. W. Nicholas, Handsworth, within 50 miles." Notice had only just been received that a witness for G.K.N. was unable to attend.
Mrs. W. R. Cross, a partner, crossexamined by Mr. R. A. Webb, for the British Transport Commission, agreed that, following the removal of two vehicles from their licence in January, the new licence for one vehicle was granted in Rine. The figures were not good because work had sometimes been slack. G.K.N. had promised to keep a second vehicle employed almost permanently.
Mr. Webb pointed out that the sole witness present could offer work on only one day a week, and it appeared that the present vehicle could do more.
Adjourning the application, Mr. James said much confusion had been caused in the past by the fact that Mrs. Cross' husband owned vehicles apart from the partnership, although all were used as 'one fleet. An undertaking to put them all in the partnership name had not been implemented.
At the next hearing he would require not only a witness from G.K.N., but evidence of the extent to which the present vehicle had been idle during the past four months. If the evidence were to be that the second vehicle would work full-time for only two concerns, consideration should be given to applying for a B licence.