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Links to Dutch firm could affect licence
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DURHAM-based firm Anglo Dutch Logistics (ADL) could be facing legal action against its licence following illegal operation hy an associated coach company, whose licence had been revoked.
The sole director of ADL, which holds a licence for four vehicles and six trailers. was Anne Stidwell.
For the firm, David Glover told Tom Macartney, North Eastern Traffic Commissioner, that an application for a five-vehicle PSV 0-licence by Anglo International Coaches, a director of which was Ralph Brown, Stidwell's commonlaw husband, had been withdrawn. Anglo Dutch Logistics wished to surrender its 0-licence. The nominated transport manager Brian Smith was no longer employed. And the one vehicle specified on the licence since it was granted had not turned a wheel.
An application had been made for a licence because of a number of contracts the company had been seeking but then failed to win.
Stidwell explained that Ralph Brown was not involved with Anglo Dutch Logistics.
ADL's one vehicle was now up for sale. The company did not get the work promised because it had taken so long for the licence to come through.
The TC said that information from Vasa and the police was that coaches had been frequently used to carry passengers within the UK by a Dutch company, Browns Coaches By, of which Stidwell was a director, and that appeared to have been happening since the Dutch company's licence had been revoked.
Stidwell said that they had not realised the licence had been revoked, and when they rang Holland, they were told it was OK to continue.
Asked why they had been operating in the UK with a Dutch licence, Stidwell replied: " I don't know.At that point, she walked out and left the building.
The TC is to announce his decision in writing at a future date.