Fined for Running Camp Services
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A COMPANY who pleaded guilty at Kirkham Magistrates' Court, last week, to three summonses for using a iiublic service vehicle as an express carriage without a road service licence were told by the presiding magistrate that the bench took a serious view of the case. "We think it just a case of flouting authority, and it cannot go on." S. Swarbrick, Ltd., Slater Road, Cleveleys, who were stated to be in liquidation, were fined £10 on each of the summonses. John Bernard Humphreys, a chartered accountant, of Queen's Chambers, John Dalton Street, Manchester, who was acting as a receiver-manager, was fined a total of £30 for allowing the offences, and ordered to pay £24 17s. 8d. costs. Mr. D. H. Mace, prosecuting on behalf of the North Western Licensing Authority, said the summonses concerned the carrying of airmen to and from the R.A.F. camp at Kirkham and Liverpool, Leeds and Bradford. in July, 1953, before the company went into liquidation, they had applied to the Authority for permission to run express carriages to various parts of the country, said Mr. Mace. Some applications were granted and others refused, but in the case of Liverpool, Leeds and Bradford, the Authority reserved decision. The offences were committed' while decision was pending. It had been made clear to Mr. Humphreys that the coaches were operating without a road service licence, but he did not stop them, Mr. Mace said. Mr. E. E. Edwards, for the defence. said that it was a purely technical offence. The Authority's decision, he said, had been promulgated after the offences had been committed.
30 YEARS' WAIT AT CROSSING
T1-1E Minister of Housing and .Local Government has approved a development plan for Grimsby which includes the replanning of a main road to eliminate a level-crossing, the cause of constant traffic delay. No reference is made to the town's seven other levelcrossings. The crossing should be eliminated within 30 years;