Bingo buses break the law
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• At Loughborough ILeics) magistrates' court, fines totalling £80 were imposed on Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd., Derby, with £21 advocate's fee and £6 5s costs, following pleas of guilty to 40 charges alleging that the company permitted the carrying of passengers outside of the licensing regulations.
Beacon Entertainments Ltd., Loughborough, was fined £1 on each of 33 charges of causing a Trent vehicle to be used as an express carriage other than under a Road Traffic licence and were ordered to pay £6 6s advocate's fee and £8 10s costs.
Cyril Lester and Maurice Lester, trading as Lester Bros., bus proprietors, Long Whatton, each pleaded guilty to seven charges alleging that they permitted Beacon Entertainments Ltd. to use a motor vehicle, as an express carriage other than under 'a Road Traffic licence and were each fined a total of £3 10s and were ordered to pay £2 2s advocate's fee and £2 10s costs each.
There were also 14 charges against Mrs. Marjorie Clarke. Loughborough, alleging that she caused a Trent motor vehicle to be used as an express carriage outside the Road Traffic regulations and after pleading guilty she was given an absolute discharge on each charge.
The prosecution stated that the offences arose out of the hiring of buses to take people to bingo games in the district.