Closed Rail Stations : Delay Not Admitted
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DELAYS resulting from the closing of eight railway stations were mentioned by Mr. Roderick Mackenzie for Stewart Cameron (Drymen), Ltd., at Glasgow last week, when the company applied for an additional vehicle of 3 tons on B licence.
The closing of the stations meant that goods had to be carried from the nearest railhead and involved extra vehicles and time. There had also been a shut-down by Scottish Agricultural Industries, Port Dundas, near Glasgow, and a transfer of their work to Ayr and Leith.
Mr. Stewart Cameron, who said that the vehicle was wanted for the carriage of agricultural, building • and general goods and timber, also claimed that congestion in the main centres slowed work.
Mr. W. F. Quin. Scottish .Licensing Authority, refusing the application, said that there was no oral evidence to support the claim. He refused to accept the view that the closing of railway stations delayed working.
DRIVERS SHOULD SEE ROUTES FIRST
IT was desirable that when a bus driver was put on a new route he should first travel over it as a passenger. The jury at Sheffield Assizes, last week, made this recommendation when a bus driver was found not guilty of causing the death of an R.AC. patrolman by dangerous driving.
The driver, James Frederick William Longden, Neale Street, Clowne, Derbys, was driving his bus on a route over which he had never travelled before, and failed to stop at a halt sign. The bus. collided with the patrolman, who died from injuries.
Longden said that the road wasobstructed by repair work for some distance before the scene of the accident. As it was his first time on the route, he was lookingfor bus stops and failed to see some road signs.
He did not know he as approaching 3 cross-roads until he was actually at the junction.
20 MORE ATLANTEANS
r-k A FOURTH repeat order for 20 A llan tean double-deck buses has been placed by Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd. The company have been operating a fleet of Atlanteans in Hastings for the past six months, and this latest order will bring the total owned by Maidstone and...District to 95. Birmingham transport department have also ordered an Atlantean. It will have 72-seat bodywork by M.C.W.
VICTORIA PARK FOR CONTEST I T is understood that the London County Council have agreed in principle to the use of Victoria Park for an eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition, which, as reported last week, is to be sponsored by Stepney Road Safety Committee with the co-operation of the Road Haulage Association.