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Protest Over Court Procedure
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po ROUSTS over final procedure were
made at the end of a three-day hearing by the Northern Licensing • Authority, at Middlesbrough, last week, into an application by the Teesside Railless Traction Board to operate new services between Thornaby and Salt' burn.
When the chairman, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, announced after a five-minute retirement that the application was refused, Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for the Board, said he thought he should have been given an opportunity to sum up. Mr. T. M. Baker, clerk to Eston Urban District Council, who supported the application, also protested.
Mr. Hanlon said there had been no evidence of spontaneous demand. Supporters had not been told even what the proposed time-tables were. It was not considered that there was any demand for new services at the Stockton end of the route, and the existing service provided by United Automobile Services, Ltd., at the Saltburn end could be extended to Normanby or even Ormesby.
In support of the application, it was alleged that at present holiday-makers from Saltburn were " dumped " at Middlesbrough and had to make their way from there by a service provided by Stockton and Middlesbrough Corporations.
DRIVERS TIRED IN 0.003% OF ACCIDENTS
IN the House of Commons, last week, Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, said that of 216,681 accidents in 1955 which resulted in personal injury, the police considered that fatigue was the factor in 360, of which only 65 (0.003 per cent.) involved commercial vehicles. He was replying to Mr. Woodburn, who had made allegations about drivers falling asleep at the wheel because they had to work excessive hours.
Mr. Watkinson said he would like to have details of cases in which drivers were alleged to have driven for 11 hours for one employer and then for a further 11 hours for another operator within a 24-hour period.
PREPARING TO WORK ALONE
THE municipal bus undertakings of Grimsby and Cleethorpes are proceeding with arrangements for alternative services in case Grimsby Corporation decide to suspend through running into Cleethorpes. Both councils have applied to the East Midland Licensing Authority for permission to alter existing services.
Unless agreement on amalgamation is reached by the two councils before the end of July, the through-running ban which Grimsby threatened to impose at the end of April, but suspended, will come into force.
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