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SHOULD LICENCES BE GRANTED TO BANKRUPTS?
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Important Point Raised Before Metropolitan Commissioner AN important point of principle in connection with the granting of licences to undischarged bankrupts was raised when Mr. C. F. Gorringe, of Hampton Court, applied to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner for licences to continue a Kingston-Ashford coach service.
It was said that Mr. Gorringe VMS an undischarged bankrupt, hut this was due to the failure of his fish businesses, and the Official Receiver took no action in the bankruptcy, with regard to the coaches. Although the vehicles were registered in Mr. Gorringe's name, the management of the business was being carried on by Mr. Cl. H. Gillman, who
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had purchased the coaches and had put a large amount of money into the firm. It was stated that the services did not pay, this being attributed to the operations of the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., but the Commissioner did not think that there was any ground for complaint against the company. It was mentioned that Mr. Gorringe had pending an appeal against the limitation of picking-up points, the result of the reduction being a considerable loss of passene'ers.
Mr. Gleeson Robinson, the Commissioner, referred to a previous ease in which he had refused to grant a licence to an operator who had been adjudicated bankrupt. The reason was that he would not be able satisfactorily to undertake the obligation into which he would enter.
In the present case, Mr. Robinson was anxious to avoid refusing the licence, and he would adjourn the matter to enable the application to be amended, so that it would not come before him in the name of an undischarged bankrupt. The operator should also consider a revised fares schedule that would put the service on "a paying basis, Actually. Mr. Robinson felt that it would be better to cut theloss