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No Licence Transfer with £25 Busiriess

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8th November 1957

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Page 99, 8th November 1957 — No Licence Transfer with £25 Busiriess

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A FTER hearing that the goodwill of a two-vehicle haulage business had been sold for £5, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, last week refused to transfer the B licence to the new,. owrirs. Mr. J. -Watt,' trading as Anthony Tench and Co:, Newcastle on Tyne, had sought to take over the licence held by Mr.N.I. D. Noble. Blaydon. , Mr. T. H.. Campbell .Wafdlaw, for the applicant. said Mr. Watt paid £20 for the two ft-licence vehicles, which were little more than scrap, plus £5 for goodwill. There.had been a third vehicle, which was sold to one of Mr. Noble's customers and then hired back to him. In January it was taken back and operated on the customer's C licence. It had now been sold to the applicant for £500 and he was operating under contract A licence. If the application were granted, it would be substituted for one of the B vehicles. " Mr. Hanlon pointed out that one of Mr. Noble's vehicles had not been licensed since September, 1956. and the other since March, 1957. The B licence had been allowed to lapse between April, 1955, and March. 1956, and it was then renewed without the irregularity being noticed. Licences could not be bought and sold, as it would be against both the public interest and that of the haulage industry. This licence had been resuscitated once, but now there was no business to sell. The application would be refused and the licence revoked, on the ground that the vehicles had ceased to be used.

12 MILES SOUGHT: 15 MILES GRANTED

AN eight-vehicle haulage company. specializing in local tipping work, chemical and mill refuse, overcame opposition from the British Transport Commission, last week, when they applied at Manchester for an additional tipper on A licence. Mr. Harold Timperley. managing director of Timperley's Ltd.. Manchester, said the vehicle was needed because customers were complaining of delays. Cross-examined by Mr. G. P. Crowe for the B.T.C., he said a normal user for tipping in a 12-mile area would be satisfactory. :Mr. Crowe said the Commissings would accept this. However.. Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, .granted' " ashes. debris and industrial refuse within 15 miles."

DUAL TRACKS ON NORTH ROAD

DUAL carriageways were opened this week on a five-mile stretch of the Great North Road between Alconbury Hill and Woolpack cross-roads (Hunts). Each carriageway is 24 ft. wide. Experimental ideas put forward by the Road Research Laboratory have been incorporated in the last two miles of the project, which has been completed two months ahead of schedule.