Injunction was Unreasonable
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T" injunction restraining Mr. Albert S. Dowding from working in any capacity in a coach business within an area of 1,564 square miles of Burwash, Sussex, for three years was described by three judges in the Court of Appeal on Monday as harsh and unreasonable. The court allowed an appeal by Mr. Dowding, of Susan Road, Eastbourne, from an order granting an injunction to Mr. E. Waterhouse and Mr. D. A. Waterhouse, trading as Waterhouse Coaches of Burwash. Mr. Dowding was formerly an employee of the Waterhouse Coaches
company. .
Mr. Dowding was sent to prison on August 23 'for breach of the injunction in regard. toa coaCh business at Eastbourne of which he was managing director. He was released on September 13 and gave an undertaking that he would not enter the. Eastbourne area. Since then he, had not been able to return to his wife and family.
BUS ORDERS FOR LEYLAND BOLTON Transport Department has ordered 17 Leyland Titan PD3.2 double-deck buses valued at nearly £60.000. Nine are to have bodywork by East Lancashire Coach Builders, Ltd., and eight will have M.C.W. bodies.
A further 12 Atlantean rear-engined bus chassis have been ordered by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and these will have 0.680 150-b.h.p. oil engines and leaf-air front suspension. They will form the basis of Gay Hostess double-deck coaches to be operated by W. C. Standerwick, Ltd.
Leicester City Transport has ordered five Titan P03.1 double-deck bus chassis. These will have 0.600 125-b.h.p. oil engines. synchromesh gearboxes, air brakes and Frank mann Lubrimatic automatic sump-topping-up equipment. The chassis ordered are 30-ft. long.