Published Ruling Differs from Oral Decision
Page 47
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
WHEN Traffic Commissioners publish ri a decision different in some respects from that which they have given orally at the end of a sitting, which is to be regarded as official?
This was the problem before the Minister of Transport in considering an appeal by Paisley Town Council against the Scottish Traffic Commissioners' grant of a terminal in Gilmour Street, Paisley, to Paton Bros., Ltd., and Cunningham's Bus Services, Ltd. It was for a stage service from Paisley to Renfrew Ferry. The question of a turn-round route also arose.
The companies had applied for a terminal in Cotton Street, but this was refused. In specifying the Gilmour Street terminal the Commissioners laid down a turn-round route which involved empty running.
The Minister has accepted as the Commissioners' decision that which they gave at the conclusion of the public sitting. This was to specify a clock-wise route, via Gilmour Street, Gauze Street, Cotton Street, Orchard Street and St. Mirren ` Street.
"Whilst a turn-round route followed by empty vehicles beyond the terminus of a service is not a matter to be prescribed as part of the licensed route of that service, it is within the powers of the Commissioners . . . to consider (and, if they think fit, attach a condition with regard to) the turn-round route of the vehicles at their terminal points," says the decision, released on Wednesday.
The Minister has had regard to the suitability of both the terminal point and the turn-round route, and does not question the Commissioners' conclusions on the subject.
"In view of the divergence between their decisions as announced at the public sitting and those subsequently published by them, it appears to the Minister that the Commissioners may not have correctly, or fully implemented their decisions," says the Minister. The Commissioners have been ordered to vary the licence conditions to establish Gilmour Street as the terminal, and the vehicles, on reaching it, arc to turn round via Gauze Street, Cotton Street, Bridge Street, Orchard Street, Causeyside Street artiiSt. Mirren Street.
The appeal hearing was reported in The Commercial Motor on October 25, 1957.
MERCEDES-STANDARD LINK 7'0 be financed by Daimler-Benz A.G.
and Standard Motor Products, Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, Mercedes-Benz (Australia), Pty., Ltd., is to be formed to develop the Australian market for Mercedes-Benz vehicles and engines, it was announced on Wednesday. The new concern will progressively manufacture and market vehicles and engines, and will explore export opportunities in the southwest Pacific.
Standard Motor Products, Ltd., are a subsidiary of the Standard Motor Co.