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THE bench of Bradford City Court adjourned, last week, consideration of a case in which a haulier accused of breaches of the 25-mile limit was said to have hired vehicles and driers separately to a customer. Mrs. Lilian Hindle, Gordon Garage, Nelson Street, Bradford, pleaded not guilty to eight summonses alleging that she used vehicles for hire or reward without proper authorization. Mr, E. Wurzal, for the prosecution, said that the defendant had two vehicles with carriers' licences, and three more vehicles and a trailer without licences. A drivers' agency had been set up in the name of Mrs. Hindle, with an address the same as that of the haulage
business. Separate accounts for the hire of vehicles and drivers were sent to the customer, a Bradford woollen company, for which loads were taken to London and other towns.
Mr. Wurzal alleged that Mrs. Hindle was circumventing the 25-mile limit by hiring vehicles and drivers separately. Mr. A. Goss, defending, submitted that the haulage business and the drivers' agency were separate organizations. As they were separate, whoever hired a vehicle controlled the driver. A Ministry of Transport examiner said that there was no distinction between the agency and the garage at Mrs. Hindle's premises.
DEMONSTRATORS EVICTED gIXTEEN people staged a demonstration, last week, against the West Midland Licensing Authority's refusal to allow Northern Roadways, Ltd., to pick up single-fare passengers in Birmingham on its service between there and Glasgcw. They boarded one of the company's coaches about to leave for Scotland and had to be evicted by the police.
BILL'S SECOND READING
ASECOND reading was given to the Road Transport Lighting (Amendment) Bill in the House of Commons, last week, and the measure was committed to a standing committee. The Road Transport Lighting (Rear Lights) Bill has already received a second reading.