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Grocer Can Keep His Signature Tune
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IF a travelling grocer announces his I arrival by sounding the first four notes of the B.B.C.'s ." Take It From Here" programme on a musical horn, is he causing an annoyance? Reading magistrates had to answer. this question, last week, when the driver of a mobile grocery store denied annoying people with a noisy instrument.
A police constable said he heard the notes twice, and they were loud even though the vehicle was 100 yards away. His evidence was countered by three housewives, however, all of whom said the music was pleasant. They added that without the h'orn they would not know the grocer had arrived.
The magistrates dismissed the case against the driver and his employers, Baylis the Grocers, Ltd., Reading.
LONDON TROLLEYBUS CONVERSION TO START
THE first stage of London Transport's
trolleybus-conversion programme will begin on March 4 (not March 1 as previously announced). Eight route extensions and through facilities, impracticable with trolleybus operation, will be introduced, with new links between residential, factory and shopping areas.
Sixty-five trolleybuses at Bexleyheath depot and 26 at Carshalton are to go out of service on three routes in south and south-east London. Each will have run nearly lm. miles or more: their average age is 20 years. The depots are being adapted for use by motorbuses, and staff are taking conversion courses.
Bexleyheath depot, opened in 1935, was the first completely new trolleybus depot built for London Transport. The two routes which radiate from it are detached from the rest of the London trolleybus system. '
Carshalton depot was built in 1906 as a tram depot, changing over to the BI type of trolleybus in 1935. For operation on Anerley Hill, the B1 was required to have brakes to slow the vehicle down to 2 m.p.h. should it run backwards or forwards down the incline, which is 1 in 9 at its steepest.
NEW CABS BRING WARNING
FOLLOWING the official approval of a four-door taxi for London, a warning has been issued by the Customs and Excise about the use of these vehicles for other purposes. It is pointed out that if the "For Hire" sign is removed, or if a seat is fitted beside the driver, they will become liable for 60 per cent. purchase tax.