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" £52,000 a Year on Sub-contracting"
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WHEN the Humberdale Transport Co., Ltd., applied to Maj. F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at Bridlington on Tuesday to replace a rigid vehicle on A licence by an articulated outfit 3 tons heavier, Mr. A. W. Balne, for British Railways, who objected, said that the concern had built up a vast sub-contracting business and were hiring at the rate of £52,000 a year.
Mr. R. E. Paterson, for the applicants, said that they were a clearing house and had three vehicles cm contract-A licence, as well as the one which it was desired to replace. An articulated vehicle was wanted for dock work so that the semitrailer could be left for loading while the tractor went elsewhere.
In the year ended March, 1959, subcontracting amounted to £41,248 whereas the company's own vehicles earned £5,170.
Cross-examining Mr. P. G. Redfern, director and secretary of Humberdale, Mr. Balne suggested that they were in a good position to obtain vehicles. Detailed evidence should be produced if the applicants sought to prove that, hiring was unsatisfactory.
Mr. Redfern replied that the Authority had not asked for such information. Humberdale had brought customer witnesses to give evidence of. inconvenience.
Mr. Balne said that he was not calling evidence but opposing on a matter of principle. .
Humberdale Transport were not a clearing house during the time that the rigid vehicle was in the hands of a previous licensee, and since 1958 they had built up a big sub-contracting business.
Granting the application, Maj. Eastwood said that there was no comparison between it and the Silver Roadways appeal, which was relied on by Mr. Balne.