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THE R.H.A.-recommended 10 per cent. I increase in rates was given as the main reason why H.M.W. Transport, Ltd., of Stepney, E.1, were asking the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, last week to authorize the transfer of 28 vehicles and eight trailers from contract A to A licence. The application, which had -attracted objections from 53 road operators and the B.T.C., was adjourned after the hear ing had lasted two days.
For the applicants, Mr. C. R. Beddington said that H.M.W. Transport had handled all the transport requirements of W. Steel and Co., Ltd., 'since 1955, carrying new furniture under contract-A licence to shops all over the country.
Mr. L. F. Mason, a director of H.M.W., said that when the R.H.A. recommended the 10 per cent, rate increase he had approached Steers, who flatly refused to consider the recommendation. Instead they had suggested that Fr.my. applied for ordinary A licences.
Mr. Mason agreed that .there was an association in the directorship of U.M.W. Transport and Steel's.
Mr. William Morgan, of Raemill, Ltd., said that his company wanted H.M.W. to carry mattresses back to Steel's factory ' on their return journeys to London.
Four independent objectors told the Authority that they had vehicles available to handle all return loads to London.