• £136 in Fines on Small Haulier
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EINES totalling £136, with ill 28. 4d. I. costs, were imposed by the Wolverhampton stipendiary magistrate, last week, on George William Baker, .23, King Street, Bradley, Bilston. lie pleaded guilty.
There were 55 summonses for running vehicles without a licence between Septembur and December, 1950, ten for running vehicles beyond 15 miles of Bilston, one for not keeping records, and one for not producing them.
For the prosecution, Mr. Stephen Brown said that Baker had held a B licence to operate within a 15-mile radius of Bilston. In October, a police officer noticed one of the lorries in Aldridge, Walsall, without a carrier's licence. Investigations were pursued
and other alleged irregularities discovered, including the carriage of castings from Wolverhampton to a motor factory at Luton, a distance of 86 miles.
Mr. G. Stredder, defending, said that Baker had got into difficulties by trying to effect licence transfers and changes himself without taking legal aid from the Road Haulage Association.
The magistrate complained to Mr. Brovm about the presentation of the case. "There is a vast mass of summonses, very many of which duplicate themselves," he said.
SHELTERS: WHO PAYS?
OPERATORS have given support to the Minister of Transport's proposals to introduce legislation governing the control of bus queues and the erection of shelters. This is mentioned in the annual report of the council of the Public Transport Association. So far as the provision of shelters is concerned, such legislation should not impose financial obligations on any particular party, th.: report states.