Three Big Operators Lose Appeals A PPEALS by Maidstone and
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District r-t Motor Services, Ltd., London Transport and the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., against decisions of the Metropolitan .Traffic _Commissioner have ' it was announCed 7 oh
Wednesday. .
All three appealed against the grant
to Mr. R. Harris (Harris's Coaches) of excursions •and tours from Corringham and an additional picking-hp point at ChadWell 'St. Mary on express services froth' Corringham to Eastbourne, • Worthing and .Ramsgate, and on excursions and touts from 'Cofringham. In -addition, Eastern National appealed againstthe parnthissioner's refusal .to 'allow :then'. to Pick. up "at Chaawdl St. Mary and Tilbury on exPresSseiiiees from Sotithend-on-Seato ..six 'reSorts' on
the south coast.
The Minister says that a picking-up point atoChadwell St. Mary for Mr. Harris is-now Justified; he had the best claim to the traffic from this' point and the grant wduld not cause such abstraction of traffic
• frotn the other operators as to outweigh the benefit to passengers wishing to join services at Chadwell St. Mary. •
Eastern National tailed to establish their ease for picking up at Chadwell St. Mary and Tilbury, and td grant these points wciald. cause undesirable abstraction from the services of Mr,' Harris and
Maidstone and District. •• INSOLVENT, HE BOUGHT "EXOTIC" CAR
ACLEARING house operator admitted at Walsall Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday that running big cars for his own purposes had contributed to the failure of his business. He was Geoffrey Ward, Walsall, who agreed that in 11 months he bought four cars, trading in each one as part exchange for the next.
. Mr. J. F. O'Reilly, Assistant Official Receiver, described the final car as "very exotic." It coSt £1,295. and was bought by Ward when he was already aware of his insolvency—only 15 days before a receiving order. was made.
Ward agreed that on car transactions a final balance would show a loss Of nearly £1,000. He admitted an estimated deficiency of nearly £4;000 on the clearing house, which he started up in May, 1957. Last year he sold it for £1,250, but by then creditors had obtainedjudgment for £2,000.
The hearing was adjourned for further inquiries and examination.
FIRST-AID ON MOTORWAYS THE first of the Ahtomobile Associa tion's fleet of radio-controlled motorway breakdown vehicles went into service this week on Preston _by-pass. It is' a Ford Escort carrying over, 100 items of ,equipment, ranging from powerful jacks to cans of petrol and water, " booster " batteries, a first-aid 'Outfit, fire extinguishers, bottles of'compressed air for rapid tyre inflation, and a nylon towing rope.