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PASSENGER TRANSPORT
Court Holds Car was Feeder THE transport of four people by car Horn Halifax toBradford, where they joined a coach tour, was the subject of a prosecution at Halifax Borough Police Court, last week. Fines totalling L'20, with £3 l'Os. 8d. Costs, were imposed on Fred Ward: of Main Street, Bingley, who pleaded not guilty to causing an express carriage to be used without licences.
Mr. Joseph Wurzal, prosecuting for the Yorkshire . Traffic Commissioners, said that a Halifax woman who booked for a tour which defendant ran from Bradford to Edinburgh and the Trossachs, last Whitsuntide, received a letter from Ward's Motor Tours, informing her that she would be picked up by car in Halifax.
She was duly picked up, together with three other passengers, and they Were taken to Bradford, where defendant's coach was waiting for them. As defendant's tour was licensed to start from Bradford, and not from Halifax, the prosecution contended that by this procedure he had taken unto himself an unlicensed feeder service.
Although the four passengers conveyed from Halila*. to Bradford made no extra payment, it was submitted that a part of the price could be regarded as a fare for the journey from Halifax to Bradford.
Harry Carr, of 20, Rhodes Street,. Manningham, Bradford, said that, by accident, _he heard that Ward's had some difficulty in conveying some pasL sengers from Halifax to Bradford. As he was going to Halifax, on domestic matters, on the day when the tour started, he telephoned to Mr. Ward and offered to bring the Halifax passengers back with him. He did so, but he did not receive any caayment or consideration.
Mr. D. I. Sandelson, for the defence, submitted that he had no case to answer. There was no such thing as a feeder service in this case.
The magistrates having unanimously decided that there was a case to meet, the defendant gave evidence. In the past, he said. Halifax people who had booked seats on his tours had travelled to Bradford by bus or train, bat, in the present instance, Mr. Carr voluntarily offered to transport these people, and be (defendant) accordingly wrote to the customers.
LAST WORD IN TIME-TABLES. A LESSON to all operators in the prePiparation of time-tables is provided by the third edition of the Green Line Coach Guide, issued by London Trans
port. • Apart from up-to-date time-table information, fares, picking-up points and maps, the booklet contains an illustrated article entitled " Where Does Your Coach Stop?" explaining the policy of stopping places and showing how signs, time-tables and shelters have made travel more comfortable and convenient.
Suggestions for walks and a picture in colour of a Green Line coach (the first of a series of such illustrations to be published in subsequent numbers) are included. Light sketches by an artist who conjures a laugh from "Rules and Regulations," add another touch of Uovelty MORE BUSES FOR TRAMS_ THE service from Bolton to Astley Bridge was changed . over from tram to bus operation, on Monday. Twenty-five new buses operate the service.