Company and Gaoled Officials Appeal
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AN appeal has been lodged by Bulk Liquid Transport, Ltd., Gildersome, near Leeds, who were fined 120,000 at Leeds Assizes on charges of conspiracy and inducing perjury (The Commercial Motor, April 3). Also appealing are the four employees who received prison sentences—Benjamin Skelley, manager, Laurence Ian Hickson, assistant manager, William Jennings and Charles Kershaw, driver foremen—who will contest against both conviction and sentence.
An application for bail has also been made.
B.T.C. FACE 000,000 BILL—OR BUSES
THE British Transport Commission
estimate that it would cost £300,000 completely to modernize the GrimsbyImmingham tramway, or £50,000 to re-equip the service for a further five to 10 years' work.
With these figures in mind the B.T.C. are proposing to withdraw the service (The Commercial Motor, March 27). They will put their case on April 24 to the East Midlands Transport Users' Consultative Committee, when attention will be drawn to "serious and growing losses " On the tramway.
The B.T.C. say that, in general, fares on buses, which they propose to take the place of the tramway, will be higher. But it is pointed out that if trams continue on the route fares might have to be doubled to eliminate the present losses. If the tramway is closed the B.T.C. estimate that it will represent a saving of £49,400 A year.
OBITUARY
WEregret to announce the deaths of SIR ASHLEY S. WARD, MR. ERNEST GEORGE TUCKER and MR. ROBERT MUIR.
Sir Ashley, aged 81, was president of Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., chairman of the Park Gate Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., vicechairman of the Laycock Engineering Co., Ltd., and a local director of the National Provincial Bank, Ltd. A nephew of Thos. W. Ward, be was successively Ward's assistant managing director and joint managing director before becoming chairman and managing director in 1941. Nine years later he was appointed the first president of the company.
Mr. Tucker, aged 62, was managing director of E. G. Tucker, Ltd., Bristol. The company's fleet delivers newspapers over a wide area in the West Country and is also engaged in school meals deliveries.
Mr. Muir was managing director of Walker Bros. (Cowdenbeath), Ltd., who operate a fleet of 40 vehicles on haulage work. He was 75.
NEW BONUS SCHEME TNDER a new bonus scheme introduced at the Austin works on Monday, 5,000 day workers will receive 6d. a week for every Id. above 5s. au hour earned by piece workers in normal 421-hour week.