Removal Vans Appeal is Refused
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AN appeal by a Haywards Heath removals contractor was refused by the Transport Tribunal in London last week. The appeal, by McCalls Removals, Ltd., was against a decision of the South Eastern Licensing Authority, refusing to grant them an A licence for two removal vans.
Giving the Tribunal's decision, the president, Sir. Hubert Hull, said that McCalls proposed to carry mainly furniture and household effects for any distance. They desired, in effect, to go into the furniture removals business as hauliers.
The application, said Sir Hubert, attracted a considerable number of objectors, some from Haywards Heath and some from as far away as Brighton.
The most unusual feature of the case was that a furniture removal firm carrying on business at Lewes which had been executing about 70 per cent. of the work which the applicants had to get done, appeared in support of the application, saying they would be glad to be relieved of part of the work they had been doing as sub-contractors for the applicants.
Despite the fact that the Tribunal sympathized with Mr. McCall they were unable to find in the evidence anything to suggest that the grant of a licence would be in the interests of the persons supplying the transport or the persons requiring it.
"So far as appears from the evidence, everybody who has wanted furniture removed has had it done and. has not suffered any inconvenience or loss, or damage from the fact that Mr. McCall has had to have it done by people who were not his employees," said Sir Hubert.