57 Years Without a Licence
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AB-LICENSED operator who had held a carrier's licence since 1933. obtained a new one in London on Monday for work that his firm had been doing for 57 years without knowing a licence was necessary for it.
The firm was R. H. Cleare and Co., of Burnham Beeches, Bucks, who, amongst other things, carry out cesspit and industrial catchpit emptying,
Mr. F. B. Cleare told Mr. C. , J. Macdonald, the Deputy Metropolitan Licensing Authority, that his father had started the service in 1903 and he had continued it since his father's death in 1933.
He explained that under local by-laws effluent from industrial plants had to be trapped in catchpits to prevent it entering the public sewers. He had successfully appealed against threatened closure of some of his disposal sites and in the decisions his work had been describ d as being of exceptional importance.
Questioned by Mr. R. M. Partingto , for four road objectors, Mr. • Cleare ia d he had not applied for a licence becau e he had never been certain he required on DAIMLER-BENZ AND WANIVEL
THE licence rights for the Wank rotary engine have been acquired iy Daimler-Benz from NSU, the Germ .n car and motorcycle manufacture Daimler-Benz will build Wankel engin s for all purposes.
FRENCH OUTPUT
I N the first half of this year so e 116,000 goods vehicles were produc d in France, compared with 124,000 in t corresponding period last year. Mot r bus output stayed at the 1960 level 1,400 units.