Cook's B Revival Bid Rejected . A BID by Siddle C.
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Cook -Ltd., of Consett (Co. Durham) to resuscitate a four-vehicle B licence conditioned for the carriage of goods for the Consett Iron Co. Ltd., as required; road, and building materials, furniture and household effects within 30 miles of Consett, was .refused by the Northern Licens:ng Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Newcastle upon Tyne on Monday.
Mr., T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for Cook, Said that his client had surrendered a four-vehicle B licence in 1458. He asked Mr. Hanlon to look upon the position as if there had been a suspension of the licence, He reminded the Authority that at the previous -hearing in December of last year, a submission was made on behalf of the 32 objectors that the applicant had not established a prima facie case. The application was then adjourned to enable certain investigations to be made of the position of some of the objectors concerning the carriage of steel from the Consett Iron Company.
The impression he (Mr. Wardlaw) had gained was that a case had been made out. Slnce the last hearing four objectors had withdrawn.
Mr. I. Robcy, representing the objectors, submitted that he had not gained that impression. The withdrawal of the four objectors was to some extent a " tit for tat " process.
Giving his decision, Mr. Hanlon said that the application had been published as an application in respect of a licence which had lapsed in 1958. In fact, the licence had been voluntarily surrendered, perhaps in unfortunate circumstances, by Cook and he was in the position, under the Act, that he could only grant a licence on evidence. It was therefore quite impossible to grant a licence by way of resuscitation in the way posed by the applicant.
... but Maycock Gets Renewal Grant A T the same inquiry, Siddle C. Cook -r-k Ltd. objected to the renewal of a 12-vehicle B licence, without modification, by H. V. Maycock of Lanchester.
For Maycock, Mr. Robey said that the objection by Cook could not be considered as a statutory objection, particularly having regard to the refusal of Cook's application for a B licence. Mr. Hanlon, however, ruled that he proposed to hear Cook's objection to save "inconvenience and expense" to all concerned.
Mr. H. V. Maycock said that his vehicles were "fairly fully occupied".
Cross-examined by Mr. Wardlaw, for Cook, he agreed that the substitution of larger vehicles on the licence had resulted in a probable increase in carrying capacity of 22 tons. He said that he had objected to anyone in the area who had applied for extra vehicles and would continue to do so.
The application was granted.