PASSENGER NEED NOT HAND TICKET TO INSPECTOR
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IF a person be travelling on a bus and
his ticket is lying on the floor, an inspector cannot demand that he picks it up and hands it to him. So long as the passenger directs the inspector's attention to where it is lying, he has complied with the law.
That is the essence of a ruling given by the chairman of the Exeter magistrates in a case in which a passenger was summoned for failing to show his ticket when travelling in one of Exeter Corporation's buses.
According to the corporation's transport inspector, the offending passenger, when asked to show his ticket, pointed with his umbrella to one of many on the floor. When asked again, he replied: "You are a public servant, and you are paid to pick it up."
The chairman. Mrs. Morgan, said the passenger was under obligation by law only to show his ticket, which, in fact. he had done by pointing with his umbrella.
77 YEARS OF COACHBUILDING
THE word " coachbuilding" has a flavour of the carriage and pair. says a booklet issued by J. Blake and Co., Ltd., 110, Bold Street, Liverpool. to give an outline of the activities of the company's bodybuilding plant at Kirby. The old word, however, is used as a reminder that the work of Blakes of Liverpool in this industry goes back 77 years.
The factory is equipped for building bodies from the raw materials and whilst a number of standard designs is available, special facilities are provided for the preparation of made-to-measure designs to .cater for customers' particular requirements.
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