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r-X A "MAINTENANCE" application was granted last week by Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North-Western Deputy Licens ing Authority, at Manchester. S. Swain and Sons, milk hauliers, Macclesfield, applied for a B licence for a mainten-.
ance vehicle to cover their fleet of 14 lorries operated under mixed licences.
They did so because an A-licence vehicle would have enabled more work to be done during the period of substitution than was possible with their present B-licence and contract-A vehicles.
Mr. J. A. Dunkerley, for the applicants, said that it now appeared that their reasoning in seeking a B licence was wrong. because the Transport Tribunal in the Harold Wood appeal (The Commercial Motor, July 12) had authorized 12 A-licence tankers to assist in the maintenance of 178 vehicles on contract-A licences. Swains would, however, he content with a B licence with a condition, "goods to be carried limited to those authorized to the vehicle taken off."
Apart from S. Swain and Sons, who had four B-licence, five A-licence and one contract-A vehicles, Mr. H. Swain was involved. He had four special-Alicefice vehicles. The lorries were run as one fleet by Mrs. Swain and her two sons. The whole was shortly to be taken over as a limited company by one of the sons, Mr. H. Swain.
In view of the safeguarding clause, the British Transport Commission offered no evidence in objection.
LEEDS APPLICATION TO BE REHEARD
THE Minister of Transport has ordered the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners to rehear an application by Leeds Corporation for a stage service from Dewsbury Road, Leeds, to Sandhill Lane, Moortown.
To prevent abstraction from other operators, the Commissioners had directed the corporation to terminate the service at Moortown Corner. The Minister was not satisfied on the evidence that the abstraction of traffic would outweigh other considerations. He could not, however, decide what weight shOuld be attached to evidence on the suitability of the route and the safety and convenience of the public.
Sir Maurice Holmes, who held the inquiry into the corporation's appeal against the Commissioners' decision, recommended that the case should be reheard.
"INTENT" INQUIRY PUT OFF
AN inquiry into a "statement of intention" by E. W. Watts (Haulage), Ltd., Sutton Coldfield. to have been held by the West Midland Licensing Authority in Birmingham on Tuesday, has, been adjourned until August 27.