Application refused following missed appointments
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• Mr E. S. Heywood of Lydford, Devon, had his application for renewal of his operator's licence for two vehicles refused by the Western LA, Maj-Gen Sir John Potter, in Plymouth last week.
Mr Pike, a vehicle examiner, gave an account of the difficulties he had experienced in obtaining an appointment to inspect the vehicles in spite of recorded delivery letters and telephone calls. Prohibitions had been placed on three occasions on one vehicle and at the time of the third notice the first two had not been cleared. In March of this year Mr Heywood had been convicted at Bodmin Magistrates Court for having no test plate on a vehicle. In fact, the vehicle was now over two years old but had still not been plated or tested.
The LA said that under section 64(2)(d) of the Transport Act 1968 he had to be satisfied that there were adequate facilities for the proper maintenance of vehicles before granting an operator's licence. Mr Heywood, who failed to put in an appearance, had some very serious prohibition notices, had utterly failed to give facilities, and seemed determined not to have his vehicles examined.