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STRONG support from the Guardbridge Paper Co., Ltd., Guardbridgc, Fife, did not help an applicant for a licence to run a bus service between Kennoway and Guardb ridge, because he had been operating in an "illegal fashion" since May.
Mr. John P. Williamson, Gauldry, told the Scottish Traffic Commissioners, at Dundee last week, that he had been asked by the paper company to operate a bus service because they had difficulty in obtaining local workers. The local bus service did not get the workers to the factory in time for a 7.30 a.m. start.
Admitting to Mr. Alex Robertson, chairman, that he had been operating without a licence, Mr. Williamson explained that when the service started he believed that the company were paying. He was paid a flat rate per week and was not aware that the company were collecting fares from the workers.
Objections came from W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., who offered to adjust their timetables to suit workers' needs, and the Fife County Council, who opposed the use of a narrow bridge. They suggested an alternative route.
Refusing the application, Mr. Robertson said that the Commissioners had to bear in mind the fact that a service had been operated illegally. Alexanders operated almost 98 per cent. of all services in Fife and a large number were unecon omic.
The Alexander company would adjust timetables to cater for the workers, and were asked by the Commissioners to avoid the narrow bridge.
FREE HOLIDAYS OFFERED FREE holidays and visits to large factories • in East Kent and East Sussex are among the attractions offered by a publicity bus sponsored by the Eat Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., and local holiday-resort councils.
A Guy-Park Royal double-decker has been fitted out as a travelling shopwindow to advertise holidays at Deal, Folkestone, Ramsgate. Margate, Herne Bay and Hastings. It is on a four-week, 700-mile tour, which will extend tothe West Country and north to Yorkshire
• and Lancashire. .• " • Visitors to the bus will be invited to complete ballot forms which will be drawn for free holidays.
SUCCESS OF MOTORWAY
"AN unqualified success" is how the London-Birmingham motorway has been described by the standing joint cornniittee of the motoring associations. Having studied reports on the use of the Ml, which stated that 1m, vehicles had used the route during the first 10 weeks it had been open, the committee add that it was probably safer than any other road carrying a similar volume of traffic.
European and American highway experts confirmed that the MI compared well with any other road in the world.