Welsh Companies Exchange Licences
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ro the ground of economy, two Welsh bus companies have exchanged a number of road-service licences. The Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., have taken over from Red and White Services, Ltd., the pantomime services run from Barry Island to Swansea and Cardiff, excursions and tours from Barry, and a stage service between Cardiff and Barry Island.
Red and White have acquired the Western Welsh services between Newport and Gloucester.
Mr. F. H. Pengelly, traffic manager of Western Welsh, told the South Wales Licensing Authority that his company had no depot at Monmouth and they had to station a bus and crews at the Red and White depot there. In the event of sickness, relief had to be brought in from as far away as Neath.
" By exchanging the licences concerned, it means we can work from our own depot at Barry without extra cost," he said. The same applied to the other services. Red and White's withdrawal from Barry would also be in the interests of economy. Passenger traffic was not affected. If anything, the arrangement was better for the public.
Granting the applications, the chairman of the Authority, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, said: "As the public are gaining, and it is more economical, we have no hesitation in giving consent."
VAN LEFT 15 MINUTES BEFORE LOADING
WHEN a van driver was prosecuted at Walsall last week for leaving his vehicle for 15 minutes outside a store before loading, the magistrates found the case proved, but granted him an absolute discharge on payment of 4s. costs. The chairman gave a warning that such leniency would not always be exercised.
The police held that the period of waiting was a breach of local traffic regulations. Vehicles could be parked only "for so long as may be. necessary to enable goods to be loaded on to, or unloaded from" them.
Police evidence that the van was outside the store for 15 minutes before loading was undisputed, but it was explained that there had been delay in fetching the goods from an upper storey. The defence maintained that the vehicle had been parked for no longer than was reasonably necessary to load the goods.
CHANCE OF BIGGER EXPORTS
IF the Government succeeded in haltI ing inflation, there was a good chance that the motor industry could maintain and increase its overseas business, said Sir William Rootes, chairman of Rootes Motors, Ltd., in his annual statement, published last week. He added that the industry's position had been dangerously weakened by inflation, and he in no way underestimated the growth of overseas competition.