15% Back-loads Need No User Extension
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THE carriage of back-loads of general goods amounting to 15 per cent. of total traffic need not be shown on normal user, the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. J. R. Lindsay, agreed at Chester last week. Johnson and Sons (Nortriwich). Ltd., were seeking to change their user from " furniture Great Britain " tO "furniture, general household effects and general haulage all districts." The British Transport Commission objected.
Mr. H. Johnson, a director, said it was a take-over application to turn a family business into a limited company. The vehicles were three Luton vans engaged exclusively on furniture removals out of Northwich, and he was asking for a change of user to cover occasional backloads of general goods, which would not amount to more than 15 per cent, of their work.
Mr. Lindsay said the present normal user had been in-force since 1949 and he would want a large body of evidence to justify the proposed much wider one. If it were desired to carry only return loads on odd occasions there was no necessity for a change of normal user. He granted the take-over.
S.U.T. IN EIRE IN MAY THE first British concern to take advan tage of Eire's abolition of the ban on foreign coaches, Sheffield United Tours, Ltd., have completed arrangements fir their inaugural Irish tour early in 'May. Mr. E. M. Taylor, chairman, said that the Irish authorities had been most helpful. Their co-operation had set an example which might well be copied by many Continental countries.