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AT a Section 178 inquiry at Eastbourne last Friday, Itchen Transport Co. Ltd., of Southampton, was reprimanded by the South Eastern Licensing Authority as a result of an immediate prohibition order served on one of the company's vehicles last September.
Mr. Desmond Meacher, managing director of Itchen Transport, told the LA, Maj.-Gen. A. F. J. Elmslie, that after the stopping of the vehicle all the faults listed by the Ministry inspector were immediately put right. On the following day another inspector passed the vehicle as being fit for service. That particular lorry had now been replaced.
In view of the care with which the company's fleet of lorries was serviced, Mr. Meacher said he was " thunderstruck " when the prohibition order was imposed.
The licence of a vehicle belonging to D. Brent Ltd., of Tadley, near Basingstoke, was ordered to be suspended for one month from January 3.
Mr. Dennis Brent, head of the firm, said that the vehicle on which a prohibition order was served should not have been on the road. It was a tipper and was taken from the works' site by the driver in order to get some cigarettes 100 yards down the road.
He had now instituted a checking and repair system which was carried out every week-end, added Mr. Brent. The firm would have a new garage coming into use in a few weeks and that would facilitate repairs.
The LA warned Brent that if he came before him again he might have to revoke all his licences.
H. Corn ick and Sons Ltd., of Southampton, were reprimanded in 'respect of a prohibition order served on one of their 33 vehicles, the LA saying that he was taking a lenient view of their case.
Mr. A. M. Lowth, for the company, said the vehicle concerned had done only 3,000 miles since the last thorough inspection. The vehicle was always in trouble and the firm had decided to get rid of it.
The case of Mr. Robert Bason, trading as Waterlooville Plant Hire, at Denmead, was at his request taken in his absence. In letter he said it was unfortunate that the vehicle on which the prohibition order was served had been working on a site for three weeks and so had missed its weekly service.
The LA said that Bason did not appear to have had any previous prohibitions and it would be sufficient for the replacement vehicle to be suspended for two weeks from January 3.
The hearing of a case concerning Mr. G. 0. Baker, of Basingstoke, was adjourned as Baker did not attend.
Sunderland Concessions: Sunderland Corporation transport committee has agreed to allow old-age pensioners to use their concessionary bus tickets on Saturdays and Sundays and public holidays as well as on ordinary weekdays. The tickets, however, will still not be usable during peak hours.