Another Maintenance Grant
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THE lack of a spare vehicle during
1960, to replace vehicles off the road for repair or maintenance, resulted in an average loss of one vehicle throughout the year, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Major' F. S. Eastwood, was told at Bridlington last week.
Link Road Transport (Hull), Ltd., were seeking an additional vehicle on A licence, and Mr. R. E. Paterson submitted that the company's 20 A-licensed vehicles were engaged 75 per cent, in the carriage of wet fish, and the speed and urgency of the service required rendered hiring unsatisfactory. During 1960 it was impossible to obtain temporary substitution licences because they had no spare vehicles but, since obtaining one early this year, the regulation has been made use of six times.
Objecting for British Railways, Mr. G. H. Timmins said although the one in 10 ratio for maintenance vehicles had virtually become an accepted principle, no evidence had been produced cf inconvenience to customers.
The application was granted.