Grant Subject to C.M.S. ' Timetable Agreement
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WHEN the Northern Traffic Commissioners allowed VY Keswick Borrowdale Bus Services, Ltd., to operate between Keswick and Seat°Iler, in Borrowdale, last week, they stated that the grant was conditional upon a timetable being agreed with Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd.
Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, for the applicants, said that they were an amalgamation of three independent operators—R. W. Simpson, T. Young and Sons and W. 1.. Askew. They and. C.M.S. had served Borrowdale in the past.
Mr. Simpson told the Commissioners that the amalgamation would permit certain savings. The application represented the first step in effecting proposals made by the Commissioners last year.
He added that he had been approached by C.M.S. with the suggestion that during the winter each should work the route in alternate three-monthly periods, instead of alternate weeks. Mr._ Simpson could not agree to this because he could not keep a driver idle for -three months.
f125 FINES FOLLOW FATAL ACCIDENT L'INES totalling £125 with £12 8s. costs i were imposed upon Cornelius Parish, Ltd., Hessle Road, Hull, and Cornelius David Parish, Thorngumbald, at Hull last Friday following charges in connection with the transport by road of an ocean-going yacht. The yacht had toppled over in transit and a man assisting with the work had been killed.
Defendants pleaded not guilty to using a trailer with inefficient brakes, a dangerous load, inefficient springs, dangerous bodywork, and not equipped with efficient tyres, and to carrying a load of excess width. The company were also summoned for employing an unlicensed driver.
Amos and Smith, Ltd., marine engineers. Hull, had previously been fined a total of £30 for offences relating to the same incident. The prosecution at the time had described the bogic on which the yacht was being carried as being a " ramshackle contraption of rusty bolts and decaying wood."
Mr. Parish said that as neither he nor his friends were sufficiently expert at the removal of yachts by road, he had approached Amos and Smith, Ltd., to do the job. He was convinced that they were quite competent.
NEW STOURBRIDGE GARAGE
D ECONSTRUCT1ON of the garage of A the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., at Stourbridge has increased the covered space available for vehicles, Where 40 buses were accommodated, 73 may now be housed. Principal feature of the reconstruction has been the roofing-over of a former forecourt. New offices, canteen, engineering stores, docking and maintenance facilities have Is-en provided.
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