And now Blue Arrows?
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• London Transport has applied to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners for a licence to operate something in the nature of a door-to-door service for the residents of Stevenage, Herts.
Vehicles serving the new routes will be b-m-o, front entrance double-decker Daimler Fleetlines with Park Royal bodies. In accordance with London Transport's nomenclative. policy these blue-painted buses will be known as Blue Arrows. A London Transport spokesman told Commercial Motor that this was to be an experimental service and had been designed to encourage the inhabitants of Stevenage—a town clearly divided into residential and industrial sections—to travel by express bus services from their homes to their places of work and back. With more pick-up and setdown points it is hoped that the very convenience of the service will attract passengers.
The proposed service, which has received the full support of the Stevenage Development Corporation, could be in operation by the end of the year if it received the blessing of the Traffic Commissioners, said London Transport. If the experiment proves economically successful, its principle could well be adopted in towns of similar physical make-up; new towns such as Crawley, with its segregation of industrial and residential estates, would seem the perfect homes for a more personalized transport service.
Four suspended for a year
• Because of past conduct relative to the failure to keep proper records and permitting excessive hours of work, a Penrith haulage firm has had four of its 10 vehicles suspended for one year.
Barnett and Graham Ltd. appeared before the Northern LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at a Section 174 inquiry in Cockermouth on Tuesday after it had been fined a total of £186 by Penrith magistrates on August 29 1967 and September 24 1968 on these and other charges in connection with hours, rest period and records offences. The company was applying to renew its B licence.
Giving his decision, Mr. Hanlon said the fines imposed by the magistrates on both occasions were "ridiculous" and he was only prepared to grant a licence for six vehicles.