Building Contractors Keep Their B Licence
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Q EVEN hauliers who contested the
grant of a B licence to a building and demolition concern had their appeal dismissed by the Transport Tribunal in Edinburgh last week. Giving judgment, Miss Margaret Kidd, Q.C., upheld the Scottish Licensing Authority's grant of two vehicles to F. and P. Taggart.
Miss Kidd said Taggart's were a small concern who applied for their six C-licensed tippers to be transferred to B licence so that they could carry building materials within 25 miles for John Bright, Edinburgh, and Geo. Wimpey and Co., Ltd.
At the public inquiry, the British Transport Commission decided not to proceed with their oblection, but there was no withdrawal from the seven private operators—M. McLean, Alexander Dunn (Kilsyth Carrier), Ltd., Lawson Bros. (Kirkintilloch), Ltd., A. 0. Irvine, Ltd., Robert Pollock, Ltd., J. and A. Smith of Maddiston, Ltd., and Hugh Clelland and Sons.
The Licensing Authority decided to grant two vehicles with a radius of 15 miles. and the Tribunal saw no reason to disturb his decision, for he had given a fair and accurate statement of the evidence tendered by Taggart's and the objectors.
Taggart's had claimed that their C-licence business had fallen away because other operators in the area, such as builders of new roads and housing schemes, were bringing their own construction materials to the sites in their own transport.
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