Out of a Heatwave Into the Court
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HEATWAVE conditions last July led Mr. Oliver Cromwell Bishop, a Coalville, Leicestershire, bus proprietor, to Coalville Magistrates Court this week for failing to comply with the conditions of a road service licence on three Saturdays in August.
Mr. Bishop pleaded guilty to three charges and was fined £.5 for each. Mr. J. C. Bray, prosecuting, told the court that Bishop's licence allowed him to run four express coaches from Coalville to Great Yarmouth on August 1, 8 and 15.
On August 1 a check at Thurnby, Leicestershire, revealed that five coaches were in use and a like number was on the road when a check was made at Bushby the following week. On August 15, an inspection at Great Yarmouth showed that six coaches were being used. Some of these had been hired from other firms.
For Mr. Bishop, Mr. John Rodgers said he had been ill at the start of 1959 and his daughter had helped him with the office work until she had a baby. His son-in-law then took over but he had not the necessary experience.
The hot July weather caused numerous fate bookings and it did not. occur to the son-in-law that there was a limit to the number of coaches which could be used.