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Does parcels taxi need a licence?
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• An Ormskirk taxi driver told the NorthWestern deputy Licensing Authority in Liverpool last week that he was not sure whether he needed a carrier's licence to transport urgent parcels throughout Great Britain in his private hire vehicles, but the police had threatened to prosecute him if he continued to operate without one.
Mr. T. C. Bell, of Bell's Radio Taxis, explained that Ormskirk and district had no Hackney carriage by-laws which would permit him to do this work. The traffic manager of Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.. for whom he had been carrying urgent packages, had been unable to attend the hearing but Mr. Bell submitted in evidence orders specifying deliveries for Dunlop to Leyland, Nottingham and Crewe.
Objecting for the Transport Holding Company, Mr. J. S. Lawton submitted that a vehicle solely constructed for the carriage of people did not require a licence to carry goods, as instanced in the case of Flour Freight Ltd.. who had been operating minibuses. But an estate car was a dualpurpose vehicle and if used for hire and reward, a licence was required.
Mr. Bell asked Mr. Lawton whether he would be prepared to give this evidence if he were prosecuted by the police, to which Mr. Lawton retorted that he would be happy to represent him—for a fee—on such an occasion.
The deputy adjourned the hearing, to allow Mr. Bell to bring witnesses to establish a need for his service.