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FINES totalling £8. with £2 2s. costs were levied on a lorry driver at Beverley Petty Sessions last week, whilst two charges against his employers were dismissed. Stanley Lofthouse, aged 45, Denton Street, Beverley, admitted that he had driven home to Fteverley, although he had been allowed 16s. subsistence allowance by his employers.
He was fined £2 on each of two summonses for driving a lorry for an excessive number of hours, and £2 on each of two charges for failing to keep proper records.
A. Naylor and Co., Ltd., timber merchants. Cherry Tree Lane, Beverley, faced two charges for permitting Lofthouse to drive an excessive number of hours, but these were dropped. The company were, however, prosecuted on two counts for failing to keep proper records and for each of these were fined £5, plus costs,
Mr. Myer Wolff, for the Ministry of Transport, said .that the records showed that on two occasions Lofthouse had driven for periods which could not have enabled him to take the statutory rest break.
B.R. CAR TRANSPORT SERVICES UNDER-USED
FACILITIES for the carriage of new cars by British Railways were not fully employed, stated Mr. F. J. McHugh before Mr. G. W. Duncan, Northern Deputy Licensing Authority, at Carlisle last week. Messrs. A. H. and M. J. Macdowall (Overland Cars Deliveries), Carlisle, sought to add an articulated car transporter to their B licence and to extend their delivery radius from 40 to 80 miles.
Mrs. M. J. Macdowall said that there was a demand for a transporter service to parts of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire which could not be met. Mr. Duncan granted the addition of the new vehicle and extended the firm's delivery radius to 80 miles in respect of work for the S.M.T. Sales and Service Co., Ltd., and Thomas Carrie, Ltd.
SHEFFIELD GETS READY
ACCEPTANCE of a tender of £295,450 for the construction of a new bus garage in East Bank Road, was last week recommended by Sheffield Transport Committee. The garage will be the first new depot to be built near the city centre since the war, and will be the last of three to be constructed in preparation for the changeover from trams to buses. It will accommodate 150 buses inside, with parking space outside. The fleet numbers more than 750 buses.