• Eastern Traffic Commissioner John MervynPugh has cut the 161vehicle
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PSV operators' licence held by NBC subsidiary Luton and District Transport to expire at the end of the year instead of in 1990.
He has also ordered the company to have each vehicle inspected every 21 days, to write a letter to its drivers warning of the importance of reporting defects and also to introduce a new defect reporting system.
A vehicle examiner imposed 16 prohibition notices including 15 irnmediates during the company's first year of operation.
Mervyn-Pugh said he was concerned about the number of prohibitions imposed, since he had interviewed the company's fleet engineer and its former managing director on September 28. He had been given undertakings which had been breached: he felt bitterly disappointed and let down.
For the company, Geoffrey Jones said that with such a large fleet problems could not be solved overnight. Luton and District had inherited a very poor situation and a comparatively elderly fleet.
Fleet engineer Peter Grimes outlined the action taken, saying that he felt the company was now on top of the problem.