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Bus operators get licence after 10 years
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• Beukins Coaches, of Fauldhouse. Lanarkshire, were granted a licence by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners in Edinburgh last week to transport workers from the area to the Plessey factory in Bat hgate, West Lothian.
The grant was made on condition that only two buses were operated daily and there was no cutting of fares. The application was opposed by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd, who claimed there had been under-cutting of fares, and contended that a similar service which it provided was sufficient for the workers.
It was stated that Beukins had been operating for more than 10 years without a licence.
A sheriff-substitute had refused to convict and the matter was remitted by the procurator fiscal to the Crown Office, but the Crown agent refused to take an appeal to the Justiciary Appeal Court.
After an adjournment on September I, Mr A. B. Birnie, chairman, gave the commissioners' decision: "On the way these buses have been operated for 10 or more years, we think it would be improper to say more than that it has been unusual. We cannot say it has been illegal. The Courts have made a declaration on this."
If Beukins Coaches were granted a licence, as the Commissioners had decided, the only difference in future would be that passengers "will not have to follow the unusual practice of signing for the responsibility of hiring a bus. They will be saved a lot of trouble on being stopped and asked what is what."