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Echo of Trafficking in Special A Licences
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'THE difficulties of an applicant who had purchased two small vans with a special A licence from a dealer and then sought to replace them with a larger vehicle on public A licence, were described by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Newcastle on Tuesday, as an echo of the trafficking in special A licences once rife in the area.
Mr. G. F. Bell, Prudhoe, said he paid £1,400 for the special A licence and £3,500 for a new vehicle to replace the vans which were not roadworthy. Repayments were £78 a month for three years.
The B.T.C, and independent objectors opposed the application and Mr. T. 1-1, Campbell Wardlaw, for Bell, submitted although it was true that he had in effect bought a special A licence the B.T.C. should not complain. Many of their vehicles offered for sale with special A licences were inoperative, and somewhere down the line value had been paid to them for these vans.
Mr. Hanlon said the applicant seemed a decent young man and had no convictions since he started in haulage.
There was room for people like him in haulage. He was seeking only a restricted normal user, and there would be a grant.