DEPUTIZED" FOR LICENSE') OPERATOR: £11111 FINE
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BECAUSE the licensed operator -could not undertake certain longdistance services, another coach proprietor undertook the journeys for the benefit of airmen stationed: at Moreton, At Moreton magistrates' court, last week, Charles Albert Scarrott, Stow coach operator, was fined £10, with .£6 10s. costs, for perry:fitting an unlicensed vehicle to be used as an express carriage.
John Wooley was also summonsed for causing the vehicle to be so used. He told the bench that he had arranged the service from Moreton to London with Scarrott. The coach was used on some three occasions and was always filled. Scarrott said that he knew that another operator held the licence for the service and had telephoned him for permission to run it in his stead. This was granted, as the other coach proprietor could not do the work.
For the defence, Mr. G. Cook stated that Scarrott did not need a licence for the journeys; because he was deputizing for the licence-bolder. This was assuming that it was necessary for the vehicle to be covered by a licence.
Wooley was given an absolute discharge on payment of 4s, costs,