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THE East Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, is concerned at the lightness with which some commercial undertakings treat applications for additional transport.
He recently commented that far too many supporting letters were signed by persons who did not trouble to indicate their position with the company concerned, which made them completely worthless.
MR. A. R. ELLIS, East Midland Deputy Licensing Authority, is worried about the question whether a. caravan exceeding 22 ft. long should be regarded as an indivisible load. a trailer, or a load on wheels. He has adjourned an application by the Lincoln Towing Service for an articulated outfit with a 50-ft. semitrailer to carry caravans, to ascertain
whether the towing of such caravans is illegal or whether special permission is all that is necessary.
THE way of the transgressor is hard, as a bus conductor with one of the large municipal operators using Ultimate ticket machines found out recently. Tickets issued were neither cancelled nor punched, and, after giving a passenger a 3d. ticket in error for a 4d. ticket, he handed over an additional 4d. ticket without using the machine.
Ironically, the passenger was a chairman of Traffic Commissioners, who, after inquiry, discovered that the ticket was issued on a bus on the same route earlier that day. The additional income gained by the collection of used tickets has come to a• sudden stop, and the conductor is a sadder and possibly a wiser man.