Can Annis have Two A Licences?
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AN application for what Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, K.C., for the applicant, Annis and Co., Ltd., described as an A licence with some technical novelty, was heard before the Metropolitan Licensing Authority on May 31. After evidence was given in support of the application, • -the hearing was adjourned until June 15.
In accordance with the decision of the Appeal Tribunal' in the Annis case, which had held that the transport of collars and. kellies for the British Oilfields Equipment Co., Ltd., was possible on vehicles which came within the Construction and Use Regulations, application was being made for a normal A licence to enable the work to be con
Mr. Norman Letts, for. the Road Haulage Executive, ,pointed out that there was & precedent. for the granting of . separate licenees for general and special 'traffics. . .
In the' past, Annis and Co., Ltd., had carried oilfields equipment in the belief that it was an abnormal, indivisible load. The, appliances had been carried in bundles weighing 5-10 tons and had to be carefully handled, their cost being between £300-£400 each.' In the year ended March 31, '1951; the total cost of haulage 'of'collars and kellies amounted to approximately 0,160.
When, following the decision of the Tribunal, the haulage of this type of load ceased on May 3, Pickfords (Special Traffics) Division of the R.H.E.
A32 had been approached to do the work, under hire to Annis and Co., Ltd. After Some discussion, Pickfords announced that it could do the job, intending to use a 40-ft. trailer and a 3-4-ton tractor unit.
A bundle of collars and kellies could obviously not be carried, as in order to carry one unit supported along its whole length, two baulks of timber 12 ins. by 12 ins. and 43 ft. long had to be placed on the trailer, thus absorbing most of the load-carrying capacity of the vehicle.
Evidence was also produced of the types of articles which Annis and Co., Ltd., had carried in the past., in the belief that they were abnormal loads. It was intended to use the vehicle for which the present licence was requested on the same sort of work.
This included the transport of.70 trees to the Festival Of Britain, the movement of 60-ft. long concrete shuttering sections for George Wimpey and Sons, Ltd., cement kilns, crushers and grinders for the Blue Circle Cement Co., Ltd., and laminated timber arches for the Airscrew Co. and Jicwood, Ltd.
In each case, apart from Blue Circle Cement, evidence was produced to show that the objectors had been approached and had not been able to offer transport for the articles.
The hearing will be resumed next Friday, when the cross-examination of Mr. F. Annis will continue and that of the objectors witnesses will commence.