"As You Like It Before Tribunal
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THE replacement of a draw-bar trailer by a lorry under the grantof an. A Licence to H., Nuttall and Sons, Ltd., of Heywood, Lanes, was not comparing like with like, submitted Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, before the Transport Tribunal in London. He appeared for the British Transport Commission who failed in their appeal against the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority's grant. "One is a dead vehicle which cannot be moved on its own and the other is a vehicle which is really, and not merely technically, a mobile vehicle," he said.
Mr. D. L. McDonnell, for Nuttalls, said there was very little difference in the earning capacity between two vehicle, and a vehicle and trailer, and Mr. Nuttall had said they wanted to carry exactly the same traffic as before.