Engine-less Bus Disabled Vehiel
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CARDIFF'S Assistant Recorder
decided recently that a bus chassis with the engine removed was a disabled mechanically propelled vehicle. He was giving judgment in an appeal by Leslie Way, Conway Road, Cardiff, and John Way, The Fairground, Penartlt Road, Cardiff, against a conviction by Cardiff magistrates for using an uninsured lorry..
For the police, Mr. D. Pennant said that the lorry was used periodically to tow vehicles to the scrap yard. On the occasion in question, it had been used to tow a bus from which the engine had been removed. He claimed that the insurance did not cover the towing of a trailer.
Mr. P. Wein, for the appellants, said that if the bus was a mechanically propelled vehicle, it was covered by the insurance policy.
The Assistant Recorder said tlit he came to the conclusion hesitantly that the towed vehicle was a mechanically propelled vehicle and that it was disabled. As such, it was covered by the policy. He allowed the appeal with Costs.
CONTRACTION AND EXPANSION ENURING the past two months about LI 300 commercial vehicles are reported to have been taken off the road in the Punjab, Pakistan, because of a shortage of tyres and spare parts.
In Karachi, where 500 buses normally operate on some 40 routes, 160 vehicles have been taken off service. Of these, 106 have been withdrawn because of the shortage of spare parts. Twenty huses have been declared oversize by thq city transport authorities and have t4 be rebuilt. Hoarding is said to be re pon . sibIe for the shortage of spare parts, which can be obtained only at blackmarket prices.
Meanwhile, Delhi Transport Se vice has introduced 12 new vehicles a the beginning of a five-year plan to ring the city's transport system up to late. Another 100 buses will be plaecd in service next year. A central work hop and two additional depots, costing about Rs. 2m., will be completed this year. Debi Transport Service has 258 buses, of which 170 are oilers.
Steps are being taken to encourage the use of oil in place of petrol in the vehicles of . all the nationalized road transport undertakings in India.
CAIRO OPERATORS GIVE MORE TIME
TO enable bus operators to ave greater time to ascertain whether they will be able to meet the stipulation that they should bring numbers of new vehicles into service, Cairo Municipal Commission have granted interim concessions to operate the city's 31 routes until January 31, 1954.
.. Concessions lasting 10 years were to have been awarded, but seven concessionnaires were unable to state that they could acquire the necessary new buses.