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• West, Yorkshire F application for a Goverr ment grant for its Leed and Bradford trolleybus project has been rejecto by the Department of Transport because "it would not be right to di cide on a major apphcat of this kind until we ar€ a better position to asst the amplications of bus gulation".
• London Buses is st up a separate subsidian company, Roundabout, run its Orpington small network on a three-yea contract for LRT, • Eastern Scottish taken delivery of the fir Danish-built underfloor-I gined Leyland Lion doul deck buses.
• Drivers hours tachograph offences bat, led to Derbyshire coach operators, C. H. Redfei being warned about its future conduct by Nortf Western Traffic Cornmi sioner Roy Hutchings.
Hutchings was consid ering whether to take disciplinary action again! the company's PSV operators licence in res. pect of 8 vehicles. In Ft ruary the company, its managing director and fi drivers were fined for d ers hours and tachograT offences at Buxton.