Too Many Camp.-Services Against Public, interest
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IT is important for us to bear in _I mind that it is_notrin the public interest for direct facilities to be provided for every plate .where Service persons are stationed to every town throughout the country."
This was stated by the South Eastern Licensing Authority,on Tuesday, when he refused Triumph Coaches, Ltd., permission to run a week-end express service to Worcester for leave personnel of the RoyalMarine Barracks,
Portsmouth. • Mr. Gordon Privett, traffic manager of the company, said that they had a licence to take leave parties between Portsmouth and Cardiff. If the application were granted, the company would be willing to surrender the licence for the section between Gloucester and Cardiff.
When the application_ had been refused, Mr. G. A. MacDonald, for Triumph Coaches, Ltd., • withdrew a similar application' to run express coaches between Portsmouth and Oxford. Objection had been lodged by the British Transport Commission, Associated Motorways, Ltd., Southdown, Motor Services, Ltd., and Unity Coaches, Ltd.
REST PERIODS NOT RECORDED VINES totalling £43, plus i15 costs,
were imposed on R. Rodgers, Ltd.; Station Road, South Shields,' 'eoal merchants and habliers. • by South Shields magistrates for contraventions. of licence conditions.-• Nine drivers were fined LI each for not keeping records.
Mr. J. L. R. Croft, prosecuting, said that there had been a "deplorable laxity" on the part of the company: Records showed that many drivers had worked excessive hours without a rest, but the explanation that rest periocN had been taken, although they were mit recorded, was accepted.
EXCITING FUTURE FOR .
TRANSPORT THE future of transport was "most
exciting." Nuclear power would open new realms in all forms of transport, and would give lower costs, said Mr. P. G. Masefield, president of the Institute of Transport, at the annual dinner of the Merseyside and District Section at Liverpool last week.
Mr. W. S. Finlayson, who presided at the dinner, emphasized that transport would have to be speeded up if nuclear power and automation were applied to industry.
B.M.C. TO KEEP DOWN PRICES. I N Glasgow, on Tuesday, Sir .Leonard Lord, chairman, said. that 'the British. Motor Corporation intended to keep prices at the present level as long as possible. To do so might reduce profits.
In the year ended July last. B.M.C. made 418,000 vehicles. By next summer the weekly output would be 12,500.