Bus Operator Loses Licence and Fined
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HE Northern Licensing Authority has revoked the road service licence of Donald P. Tallentire, Cockton Hill, Co. Durham, for failure to adhere to its conditions.
Bishop Auckland magistrates fined Tallentire £1 on each of 10 charges of infringing the conditions. Defendant was also ordered to pay 0 8s. advocate's fee.
Eight charges related to unauthorized alterations to time-table, another to disregard of the specified refute, and the tenth to the issue of tickets. Mr. J. L. R. Croft, prosecuting, said that there had been a wanton disregard of the regulations.
Mr. J. E. Brown-Humes. defending. said that Tallentire was a newcomer and had no previous experience.
Residents of Escomb, Bishop Auckland, have discussed the revocation with Mr. W. A. Bleach, clerk to the Authority. They protested against the Authority's "high-handed action in depriving the village of its bus facilities.
FIRST BEDFORD FROM DUNSTABLE
THE first Bedford lorry to be produced at the Dunstable factory of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., came off the assembly line last week. The company's £36m, expansion plan calls for car and light-van production to be concentrated at Luton, and the manufacture of Bedford lorries at Dunstable.
The last lorry built at Luton was produced last month before the company closed for the annual holiday. During the two weeks' vacation, the 835-ft. assembly line, various enginemachining lines and wheel and tyre assembly equipment were moved to Dunstable.
When further extensions are completed. lorry body production and axle and transmission manufacture will be transferred to Dunstable. Steel-sheet components. including cabs, will continue to be made at Luton.
Bedford lorry production, now at the rate of 190 vehicles a day, has not been affected by the transfer from Luton.
CHEAPER GARAGE EQUIPMENT QUBSTANTIAL reductions have been tsimade in the prices of the versions of the Bossol multi-purpose garage appliance described in The Commercial Motor dated July 1. The model DTA now costs £92 instead of £125, and the special type, with 6-gal. container for collecting drained-off sump oil, £100.
The model D4 cabinet with sumpdraining and flushing equipment, but without built-in compressor, now costs £80. and the D3.with only oil-changing equipment, £67. Accessories For tyre inflation arid other purposes remain at the former price—£45 15s. complete.
The Rosso!, a German device, is imported by the Beauship Trading and Shipping Co.. Ltd.. 25 Savage Gardens. 1.ondon, E.C.3.
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Two Disputes on Wages
I-1 A DISPUTE on Wages of clerical workers employed by Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd.. is to be heard by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal on September 2. On August 25, the Tribunal are to hear a similar case involving Rhondda Transport, Ltd. The hearings will be in private.
The National Association of Local Government Officers arc the complainants.
EVEN-TEMPERED DRIVERS
DRESENTING safe-driving awards to Ettr ter employees of Shell-Mex and B.P„ Ltd., last week, Lt.-Col. R. R. M. Bacon, chief constable of Devon, "applauded the good humour" displayed by heavy goods vehicle drivers over August Bank Holiday.
"1 have never yet seen this summer an exhibition of bad temper from a lorry driver, but 1 have seen plenty from other drivers." he added.
He suggested that big companies connected with the roads, such as Shell and vehicle manufacturers, should consider making comfortable stopping places for long-distance drivers.
NO NEW SERVICE
A PROPOSAL to run a service CI between Halifax and Bradford, via Queensbury, has been abandoned by Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee. Hcbble Motor Services, Ltd., operate a similar .service via Queensbury and Shelf.
PAKISTAN ON THE RIGHT
PAKTSTAN is to go over to driving on the right on January 1 next year. Future imports of vehicles will he restricted to those with left-hand drive. and buses are to have their entrances and exits changed. Clerical Wrong Fare Scheme: Traffic Dropping IN his annual report, Mr. Jackson
Hoggard. general manager of Southport Transport Department, quarrels with a decision of the North-Vestern, Licensing Authority, last March. on fares. The Authority permitted an increase of Id. in 2d. and 21-cl. fares, with one or two exceptions, and threw Out an alternative scheme for the introduction of d. surcharge from 1 p.m. on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
Mr. Hoggard still believes that a surcharge to cover the additional cost of operation at week-ends was the better of the two proposals. An increase in the lower fares has caused a substantial fall in passengers. For two years the number of passengers carried has been dropping at the rate of about 2 per cent. a year. "This tendency seems likely to be continued,' Mr. Hoggard says. Mileage operated was the lowest since normal services were resumed after the war.
Unless the tax on oil fuel is greatly reduced or abolished, services will have to be further reduced or fares increased.
Great progress has been made by the department in the manufacture of corner panels and wing valances of. glass mat reinforced polyester resin. About a third of the fleet of 77 buses has been fitted with corner panels of this material.
PERKINS TWO-DAY COURSES lIAAINTENANCE courses lasting two IVI days are now being run at the school of F. Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough. Taking place over Mondays and Tuesdays or Wednesdays and Thursdays, the courses are of a practical nature and are intended mainly for drivers. Minor fault-finding is done on test-bed slave engines.