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A NOTHER coach operator has refused to appear before a "vigilante " committee in the West Midlands. He was alleged to have illegally operated a coach on private hire from Kidderminster to London on March 18. Hc was asked to meet the Worcestershire County Committee of the Road Passenger and Transport Association at the Crown Hotel, Wychbold, on April I.
The letter inviting him to appear before the committee described the meeting as " informal and voluntary."
In a letter refusing the invitation, the operator said: " Fortunately, it has always been accepted in this country that justice is given through our Courts of Law, and in no circumstances do I feel it desirable either in the .interests of the public or in the interests of my company to take any part in this attempt to usurp not only the jurisdiction of the Licensing Authority, but to attempt to predetermine whether a particular operation is legal or otherwise, or for judgment to be passed on 'be by fellow operators."
As reported in The Commercial Afotor on March 13, the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association disapprove of the activities of the " vigilante " committees.
DECISION ON CORONATION SERVICES RESERVED ,
T1-1E. West Midland Licensing Authority reserved his decision when the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., applied to double their services to London from Birmingham and Manchester from May 13-July 31 to cover the Coronation period.
The Railway Executive objected to the application, stating that the proposed period was not in proportion to the celebrations and that it should be 1.educed to a month.
Backings for Manchester-London services were sought by the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., ,and Majestic Express Motors, Ltd,
L.T.E. RECLAIMING SPRING LEAVES
I-1 A RECLAMATION scheme for road
springs recently introduced by London Transport is hoped t6 show large economies. The leaves of springs which are withdrawn from service are examined for fractures. Sets of templates of the various leaf sizes used are available, and one is selected and tried on a faulty leaf. From an appropriate set the operator selects the longest template which can be accommodated in the sound portion of a fractured leaf. These sections are then cut out and after treatment are used as units to build up complete springs.
It is understood that since the scheme was started, purchases of new spring leaves have been largely confined to the longer top leaves. Much of the light work, such as crack detecting and mark
ing-out to template, is carried out by elderly or slightly disabled people.
London Transport already have a scheme in force for the reclamation of bolts, nuts, washers and screws (The Commercial Motor, March 20).
STUDENT SOCIETY RECOGNIZED THE council of the Institute of Transport have given formal recognition to the constitution of a Lancaster Graduate and Student Society. This brings to six the number of such societies in the north-western section.
URUGUAY TO IMPORT
COMMERCIAL vehicles are among the goods for which the Uruguayan Government are now prepared to grant import licences. Quotas have been opened for the purchase of British goods to the value of £1,410,000. Applications for import licences must be submitted before April 15.
Special quotas were recently opened for tyres and inner tubes from Britain and some other countries.
FINED FOR EXCEEDING 25 MILES
FVINES and costs totalling £9 14s. were imposed upon John Francis Sharp, Norcroft. Graham Street, Penrith, by Penrith Bench, last week, for contravening the 25-mile limit. Defendant pleaded guilty to having carried a load of hemp from London to Leith for £38 5s.
Mr. G. N. Worthington, prosecuting, withdrew a second charge of a similar nature and said that Sharp had been convicted on four similar summonses in 1950.
BUSES ON HONISTER PASS?
THE road from Buttermere to Borrowdale over the Honister Pass should be opened to public service vehicles not wider than 6 ft. 6 in. This recommendation has been made by the surveyors of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire, who have scheduled Lakeland roads over which passenger vehicles might be permitted to operate. Applications to run buses over the Hamster Pass have been repeatedly refused for 20 years.
The county surveyors also made prohibitions upon the operation of public service vehicles along a certain number of highways.