Two dustcart grant despite GV9s
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• Despite having received two immediate GV9 prohibitions on the same vehicle, Epping UDC was on Wednesday granted a two-vehicle variation of its operator's licence. The Metropolitan LA, Mr D. I. R. Muir, agreed to the grant after he had been told that two of six existing vehicles were being scrapped.
Mr L. G. Gurry, a vehicle examiner, told the LA that he imposed an immediate prohibition on one vehicle — a dustcart — after discovering that the generator was loose and held on only by the fan belt. There was also evidence of seepage of hydraulic fluid on one wheel and the handbrake compensator was out of adjustment. The other three vehicles he examined all had minor defects. Mr Muir accepted that the second GV9 — imposed on the same dustcart when it was presented for re-test — should in fact have been a variation of the earlier order.
Mr John Bale, assistant engineer and surveyor, told the LA that the vehicle concerned in the GV9 had only been used on one day a week until November last year. Since then a succession of major breakdowns and an accident had caused the vehicle to be used more frequently.
Mr Muir, granting the application for one vehicle in possession and one to be acquired, said that had additional vehicles been involved he would have refused it. He was "very surprised that any responsible council should have vehicles in such a state. I hope that we have no more trouble."