B.R.S. Lorries Free from Speed Limit
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BIGGLESWADE magistrates decided last week that a British Road Services lorry was not subject to speed limit when travelling unladen. A charge of driving a goods vehicle at an excessive speed was made against Joseph Sutton, Sandy Road, Everton, and two police officers said that they had followed his 21-tonner at 40-45 m.p.h.
Defendant pleaded not guilty arid refuted the officers' contention that there were six cases of damaged cat's food on the vehicle. He said that all he had on the lorry was a tarpaulin. The magistrates agreed with his soliditor,'Mr. E. S. jowitt, that the lorry was unladen.
Mr. Jowitt said that the Lord Chief Justice had ruled that unladen vehicles operating under carriers' licences were entitled to freedom from speed restriction. He submitted that B.R.S. lorries, although not actually running under carriers' licences, were entitled to the same liberty.
The chairman. said that the Bench felt that the vase was covered by the Lord Chief Justice's decision.
£42 FINES ON OPERATORS CEVEN operators were fined a total of £42 at Bedale court last week for running services without road service licences from Leeming R.A.F. Station to Newcastle, Sheffield, Manchester and other northern towns. The case against one operator was dismissed and those against two others were adjourned until January 13.
FREE TRAVEL FOR OLD PEOPLE? IF approval is given by the town 1 council and the West Midland Licensing Authority, old people in Birmingham will be allowed free travel on the municipal vehicles. The general purposes committee approved a recommendation to this effect last week.
Free travel will be granted between A30
10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on weekdays only and will apply to men over 70 and women over 65. Passes will be granted to those who submit their birth certificates to the corporation. April 1 is the scheduled date for the introduction of the scheme, which will cost about £85,000 a year. This sum is equal to a 3d. rate and will be borne by the general rate fund.
P.A.Y.E. RUSES FOR PARIS
AVOTE of £2m. is being sought by the Paris transport authorities to build 600 new single-deck pay-as-youenter buses. They Will have three automatic doors, one of which will be an entrance. The rear platform will be larger than that of present types, to provide room for people waiting to pay their fares.
COPPER ALLOYS FREED
nRDERS have now been made
revoking the amended Copper and Zinc Prohibited Uses (Board of Trade) Order, 1951, and the Copper and Zinc Prohibited Uses (Ministry of Supply) Order, 1951, as amended. Restrictions on the use of copper, brass, and other copper alloys for the home market are now removed. Restrictions on nickel alloys continue