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Naval Leave Trips: 18 Summonses
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WIHETHER the conveyance of sailors W from Plymouth to provincial destinations at week-ends required to be done under road service licences was argued before Plymouth magistrates last week. Plymouth Co-operative Society appeared on 18 summonses alleging that it permitted its coaches to be used as express carriages without such authority.
The Society was fined £5, with £10 10s. costs, on the first summons. The remaining 17 were adjourned for six months to give the defendant time to consider an appeal.
Prosecuting for the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. Fabyan Windeatt said that on the first summons a journey to Liverpool on February 29 was involved. The Authority, he said, had written to the Society in December, 1951, stating that he had been informed that the Society had been running a regular service for naval personnel to various towns,. and said that he would take a serious view if he received a similar report again.
The Society's solicitors requested the Authority to state the legal reason for contending that the services were illegal. Mr. Windeatt declared that the trips were not made on a special occasion and a road service licence was therefore required.
Mr. D. Karmel, Q.C., defending, said that the prosecution had not, as it had to do, proved that the Society had been of guilty intent.
10 M.P.H. LIMIT STAYS
STATING that it was a matter for discussion between the parties concerned, the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week rejected an application by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd.. for the removal of a 10 m.p.h, speed limit on double-deck buses running in Balhousie Street, Perth. This restriction was imposed because of complaints from property owners about vibration.
Mr. R C. B. Currie, for the applicant, said that drivers' efforts to maintain the low speed were having a bad effect on the transmission systems of the buses. Their speed was such that pedestrians overtook them and the company was being made a laughing stock.
DEFERMENT OF APPRENTICES OMPANIES engaged upon the manufacture of motor vehicles now come within the scope of the Ministry of Labour's scheme for the deferment from National Service of certain highly skilled apprentices. The Admiralty or the Ministry of Supply notifies those manufacturers with a good export record that they may seek a two-year deferment for some apprentices whose skill is required to maintain production.
Makers of engines, fuel-injection equipment and various other engineering products vital to rearmament or the export drive are already included in the scheme.