Licence Switch Refused
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-1BJECTORS to an application to --I switch a contract licence to an rdinary A grant complained, before the Vest Midland Licensing Authority last Tek, that for 50 per cent. of the time ley were already running part-empty. he Authority was hearing an adjourned pplication by Beresford Transport, Ltd., dating to five tractors and nine seminiters at present on contract to H. and . Johnson, Ltd., tile manufacturers. The xision was reserved.
Mr. K. Beresford, managing director, lid that, if the application was granted, lost of their back loads would originate t London and from the south coast. raffle from Johnsons was carried all over le country.
The application was opposed by four -ivate road operators. Mr. R. G. assett, a director of Bassett Roadways, Id., said he had 19 vehicles on A licence. ifty per cent. of the time they were not Illy loaded on return journeys from ondon. If they were not there to collect consignment by mid-day, somebody se had taken the traffic. He thought the .tresford application, if granted, would terfere with the traffic going between 3ndon and the Potteries. Complaints garding return loads from London were so made by Mr. E. B. Davey, of A. and . Davey (Roadways), Ltd. Every tveek )out eight empty journeys were made.