Coach Charge Fails : Case to be Stated?
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QSWESTRY magistrates were warned that they might be asked to state a case when, last week, they dismissed a charge against Messrs. J. W. Lloyd and Son. Welsh Walls, Oswestry, for using a public service vehicle as an express carriage without a road service -licence.
Mr. Y. A. McKnight, prosecuting. said that the charge arose from the use of a bus to take patrons of the Plaza ballroom to their homes.
A police constable Said that he saw a bus of Messrs. Lloyd in Gobowen. The driver told him that he was on a contract job, adding that tickets were bought at the dance and sometimes collected by its organizer. The constable stated stated that defendants and Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., ran the journeys in turn. The vehicles were hooked for a definite figure and the driver did not collect tickets.
Mrs. Winifred Ward, manageress of the ballroom, said that arrangements were first made by contract, but later when fewer patrons required transport, Messrs. Lloyd were telephoned during a dance. As patrons boarded the vehicle she collected the tickets, which she sold at 2s. each.
Mr. George Wilfred Lloyd, an executive of Messrs. Lloyd, stated that the firm had no knowledge that fares were being charged. Defending, Mr. C. Jones said that the case should be dismissed, as Mr. Lloyd was ignorant of what was taking place.
R.o.S.P.A. RULES STILL • UNDECIDED
DiSCUSSIONS were still taking place on a change in the rules of the national safe-driving competition of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Maj.-Gen. B. K. Young, director-general, told The Commercial Motor on Wednesday. No decision had yet been reached.
This month's issue of the Transport and General Worker? Record states that a change in the rules was likely to be made in a few months and might
be retrospective. At present, a conviction for speeding makes an entrant ineligible for an award, whereas under last year's rules the man's employer had to decide upon disqualification if he thought that the offender's speed was dangerous.
The Record asserts that certain persons threatened to resign unless dis, qualification were made automatic. The T.G.W.U. opposed this and were later joined by big bus operators, including London Transport, in demanding a revision to last year's rules.
NEW McLAREN ENGINES
kr NOWN as the L.E. class, a new
range of oil engines has been introduced by J. and H. McLaren, Ltd., Leeds. The four-cylindered model develops,120 _b.h.p. at 1,800 r.p.m. and the sis-eN I inderecl version has a correspondingly higher rating.