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No Power of Confiscation

10th July 1953, Page 30
10th July 1953
Page 30
Page 30, 10th July 1953 — No Power of Confiscation
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THE Northern Ireland Court of I Appeal last week unanimously decided that Section 18 of the Ulster Transport Act, 1948, was ultra vires and contravened Section 5 of the Government of Ireland Act.

Ulster Transport Authority unsuccessfully appealed against a decision of the Divisional Court, which had held that U.T.A. had no power to confiscate, without compensation, property of James Brown and Sons Ltd., 300 Newtownards,Road, Belfast, a removil concern. Brown's were alleged to have carried furniture from Belfast to Coalisland without U.T.A.'s written consent or the approval of the Ministry of Commerce.

Section 18 of the 1948 Act had been held to give U.T.A. that power, but the Court of Appeal ruled that the Government were not entitled to grant it.

NO TRAMS SOUTH OF SHEFFIELD WITH the closing of the Erdington VW group of tram routes in Birmingham last Saturday, there are now no trams in England south of Sheffield. Although trams began in Birmingham in 1873, the corporation did not become operators until January, 1904, when by a coincidence, they began electric working on the in-town portion of the routes abandoned last week-end.

The change-over, which involved the three services from Steelhouse Lane to Erdington, Short Heath and Pype Hayes, as well as many short workings and specials to Fort Dunlop, took place during the morning. Trams returning towards the city were taken out of service at Victoria Road, Aston, or Miller Street, and passengers and crews transferred to buses.

The last service car was followed by two specials conveying the Lord Mayor and other guests of the department. In bidding farewell to the trams, the Lord Mayor mentioned that in .1904, the departments receipts were £17,133 and about lirn. passengers were carried. Now about that number was carried daily and the annual revenue was some 1.6m.

JOINT ROAD-RAIL OFFICE

OMonday, a new combined road V and rail inquiry office for the joint use of British Railways and the Thames. Valley Traction Co., was opened at Reading South Station. Bookings can be made there on express road services to London and for road travel throughout the country. Private hire can also be arranged.

VICTORIA COACHES APPEAL

AN appeal, to be heard in September, , has been lodged by Victoria Coaches (Leigh-on-Sea), Ltd., whose application for an express service from Southend to London was, as reported in The Commercial Motor on May 15, refused by the Eastern Licensing Authority.


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