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No B Licence for Lime Carriers

9th April 1954, Page 42
9th April 1954
Page 42
Page 42, 9th April 1954 — No B Licence for Lime Carriers
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AB LICENCE for the carriage of lime and agricultural requisites within a 150-mile radius of Gilcrux, West Cumberland, was refused Messrs. James and Tom Johnston by the Northern Licensing Authority last week. Applicants owned a lime company, and had two vehicles on a C licence for the delivery of bulk lime to spreaders on Scottish farms as far north as Arbroath. Merchants near farms to which they delivered had asked them to take return loads of hay and grain back to Cumberland.

• Objections were lodged by British Road Services and British Railways, for whom Mr. F. J. McHugh said that they took a serious view of a C-licence operator seeking to transfer into the B category. It would, he.said, take little ingenuity to incorporate both the lime company and the haulage concern so that the vehicles could carry the lime and be able also to carry back loads.

Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw. for the applicants, maintained that if the need for outward traffic had been established, it was an accepted principle of licensing that they were entitled to return loads. Mr. R. G. Davies, Carlisle group manager of B.R.S., said that they were the chief hauliers of grain from Scotland to the Quaker Oats mill in West Cumberland.

The Authority said that he did not agree that any C-licence operator who could show need for the main customer should be entitled to carry return loads. If the application were granted, anyone who delivered .lime to spreaders anywhere in the country would also be entitled to have return loads of general agricultural requisites from the farms to which they delivered. He did not think that was the law as it stood.


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