Boston Stevedores Fined £500 for Licensing Offences
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FINES amounting to £500, with £12 12s. costs, were imposed at Thames Magistrates' Court, last week, on Boston Stevedores, Ltd., Boston, Lincs. They pleaded guilty to a summons for failing to comply with the conditions of a C licence and 24 summonses for using goods vehicles for hire or reward without a licence. They were fined £20 in respect of each of the 25 summonses.
New Atkinson
Models "
THREE new models, in addition to several chassis which are in current production, will be exhibited by Atkinson Lorries (1933), Ltd., at the Commercial Motor Show next month.
The newcomers are a doubledecker bus chassis, a six-wheeled twin-steer goods chassis and a fourwheeled tractor with Scarnmell semiUailer. All are powered by Gardner units.
All service matters concerning their vehicles will now be dealt with by Atkinson Lorries (1933), Ltd., from their head office at Walton-le-Dale, and not at Marsh Lane, Preston. New premises have been built adjoining the works.
RUTLAND DISTRIBUTION CHANGE
DISTRIBIMON of Rutland vehicles in this country is to be conducted 1:q. Motor Traction (Sales), Ltd. This concern will deal with heavy-vehicle service, truck service and passenger vehicle maintenance, including the supply of all service spares and parts foe Gardnerand Perkins-powered Rutland vehicles.
Mr. Frank Manton, A.M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T,E, managing director and chief designer of Motor Traction, Ltd., told The Commercial Motor that new plant was being acquired and that new premises were being built to meet the increasing demand for Rutland vehicles.
PREMIER TRAVEL APPEALS FAIL
APPEALS by Premier Travel, Ltd., in respect of three decisions of the Eastern Licensing Authority have been rejected with costs by the Minister of Transport.
Premier Travel appealed against the Authority's refusal to grant them a licence to operate an express service between Oakington R.A.F. camp and Manchester, and the grant of permission to Eastern Counties Omnibus Co„ Ltd., to run a similar service.
They also appealed against the decision to permit Eastern Counties to continue to operate, without modification, express services between Cambridge and Southend and Cambridge and Felixstowe.
The appeals were heard by Ministry of Transport inspectors• in Cambridge on June 21 and 24.
A32 Mr. L. E. Barker, prosecuting, said the case arose from the removal, at the request of the Ministry of Food, of 2,000 tons of raw sugar from the Free Trade Wharf, London, to Diss, Norfolk, between December 17 and January 6 last B.R.S. Unable to Cope British Road Services could not handle the load at the time. They asked Trinity Wharf, Ltd., to move the sugar and this company got into touch with the defendants' London branch, Tower Hill Transport, which should have sub-contracted the work to operators with licensed vehicles.
Mr. J. R. T. Hooper, defending, said that, in view of their previous convictions, the defendants circularized their branches before Christmas, telling them to be careful. There was unlikely to be a repetition of the offences, as the company had recently bought 36 ex-B.R.S. vehicles with special A licences.
Mr. A. Hammond, London manager of Tower Hill Transport, said he was asked to move the sugar urgently and could not get enough properly licensed lorries elsewhere. He took full responsibility.
"Very Grave Case " The magistrate, Mr. Harold Sturge. said that, in his view, this was a very grave case and the worst of its kind that had come before him. It was a case of a well-established road transport clearing house with a bad record—not of an inexperienced operator making a mistake. If the attitude of Hammond's employers had been a proper one he would not have dreamt of taking the risk of hiring unlicensed vehicles to do the work.