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MANCHESTER dance-hall PA. licensee had hired two coaches a night, three times a week since January, to give his customers free travel, the North Western Traffic Commissioners learned at Stockport on Tuesday. He decided on this course after being told that the use of coaches for which patrons subscribed was illegal.
York Motors (Manchester), Ltd., applied for new express licences to carry late dancers from Brunswick Street, Manchester, to Stockport, Prestwich and Altrincham.
Manchester Transport Department, Salford Corporation and British Railways objected_ Mr. H. Robinson, appearing for York Motors, said the application was made solely to serve the needs of customers of Shorrocks Dance Hall in Brunswick Street, for whom the objectors' all-night services were inadequate. Many of the patrons were nurses who had to be in the various hospitals by midnight and they could not do so by the regular allnight services.
Mr. J. A. Swalwell, for Manchester Corporation, said the development of private late-night dance _services in Manchester could jeopardize the corporation's all-night network. Most of the journeys were uneconomic Early journeys subsidized later ones.
It was undesirable to license special services for a small section of the community, submitted Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for British Railways. The electric railways service between Manchester and Altrincham was admirable and there was little alteration in the position since December, when a similar application was refused.
Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said that in the public interest, the corporation and railway services must come first, but the Commissioners were prepared to grant services to Stockport and Prestwich, setting down only where they did not compete with existing services. Decision on'the Altrincham application was reserved.
E40 FINE FOR CONSPIRACY
AA WOMAN garage owner, Mrs. Clarice Tomlinson, of Selside Service Co., Selside, was fined £40, with £10 costs, at Westmorland Quarter Sessions on Monday for conspiring with a driver of the Scottish Cooperative Society to imply, in making out a delivery note, that more fuel had been supplied to his vehicle than was the case.
The woman's daughtc r, Ann Tomlinson, admitted that 3s. had been paid to the driver for each gallon entered on the note which had not been supplied. Both defendants pleaded guilty. The daughter was given an absolute discharge.
Earlier proceedings were reported in the issue of The Commercial Motor dated January 18.