Bus Company Face Crippling Bill
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UNLESS the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Electric Railway, Ltd., can be relieved of the cost of £50,000 for the removal of the tram lines and overhead equipment they used before converting to motorbuses, they may be forced into liquidation. Municipal authorities of Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Caernarvonshire and Denbighshire last year asked the Minister of Transport to cancel the rights of the company to the lines and equipment, and he has now agreed to do so on January 31 unless some arrangement is made between the company and the authorities in the meantime. A Ministerial order such as the authorities have urged would enable them to remove the gear and charge the cost to the company, but such a course would, in the view of Mr. D. R. Baker, director and secretary of the concern, be almost absurdly extravagant. The company did not have the money to pay.
The concern had -offered to cover the rails, but the Minister has told them that it is necessary for the track to be removed.
The company, who converted to motorbuses in 1956, have a common route between Llandudno and Colwyn Bay with Crosville Motor Services, Ltd. When Crosville raised their farts last year, the charges on this route were not altered, as the L.C.B.E.R. undertaking refused to advance their rates. L.C13.E.R. are objecting to Crosville's application to the North Western Traffic Commissioners for the renewal of their licence to operate between the two resorts, and seek several amendments to it.
£63 FINES ON RECORDS CHARGES
FINES totalling £63, with £10 10s. costs, were imposed last week on T. Simmonite (Transport), Ltd., Sheffield, when they faced 21 summonses for not causing records to be. kept by their drivers. They asked for 26 similar offences to be taken into consideration by Sheffield magistrates. Mr. M. Thornelow, defending, stressed that drivers' hours had not been exceeded, which was the purpose of keeping records. The magistrates were told that in June, 1956, the company were fined £147 for offences concerning records.
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