No Dtserimination Against Buses
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"WE are definitely opposed to dis VY criminatory action of this type, unless it is fully justified, against the public service vehicle," said Mr. H. I. Thom, chairman of the South-Eastern Licensing Authority, when he rejected an application by Hastings Corporation to compel Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., to use buses not more than 7 ft. 6 in. wide on their services passing along a narrow road at Castle Hill in the centre of Hastings.
The corporation claimed that 8-ft.wide buses were a greater danger to pedestrians.
Maidstone and District opposed the application. The corporation, it was stated, had not sought a ban on the width of goods vehicles using the road.
Mr. Thom added: "We regret to notice a tendency nowadays in many parts of our area to discriminate in this manner against what might be called the poor man's car.
In other words, the public service vehicle is an easy target. It can be got at through the Licensing Authority, but we will not be a party to any such discrimination."
FIRST "DRIPPING WATER"
THE first prosecution under a new Leicestershire County Council bylaw, which prohibits the deposit of water on the highway from lorries loaded with wet sand and gravel, was heard at Market Bosworth last week.
Jacques Bros., Ltd., Belvoir Road, Coalville, owners of a sandpit near lbstock, were given an absolute discharge. Mr. A. E. Smith, a deputy surveyor, said that he saw a lorry belonging to the company parked in a road at Ibstock. Water was pouring from the vehicle and the temperature was near freezing point.
The driver denied that the lorry was losing a great volume Of water. ,Joseph W. Jacques, managing director of the concern, said that every vehicle was parked for a period to drain.
Mr. W. H. Musson, defending, said that all reasonable steps had been taken to prevent the dripping of water on to the road, but ordinary commercial practice entailed the loss of a certain amount of water while wet sand was carried.
The deputy chairman hoped that the case would serve as a warning.
B.R.S. MEN STRIKE
ABOUT 70 drivers of the British Road Services depot at Lister Street. Glasgow, struck work last week because they claimed that two of their colleagues were unfairly suspended. The two men stopped their lorry to post a football pool coupon. The strikers returned to work after three hours.
The depot manager said that the men were suspended because they had been taking too long on the job. NO LICENCES: FINED £35
FINES totalling £35 were imposed on George Thomas Walker, Desmond Farm, Anlaby Park Road, Hull, at Hull last week after a lorry-of his had been found by the police to have no Excise or carrier's licence. The driver, a learner, had no L-plates and was fined
£2. Walker' said that the offences occurred through an oversight.