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T HE bearing was resumed at Luton on Tuesday of an
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application to a joint sitting of the East Midland, Metropolitan and Eastern Traffic Commissioners by Buckmaster Garages, Ltd., Leighton Buzzard, for express and excursion licences from Aylesbury to Glasgow.
Objectors to the application, the early stages of which were reported in The Commercial Motor on November 28 and December 5, 1958, were British Railways and United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd. (represented by Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon); Keith Garages, Aylesbury, and Red Rover Omnibus, Ltd., Aylesbury (Mr. R. Walters); Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.. W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., Scout Motor Services, Ltd., and Yelloway Motor Services, Ltd. (Mr. F. D. 'Walker); Western
Co., Ltd. and Scottish Omnibuses. Ltd. (Mr. J. B. T. Loudon).
Mr. C. R. Hodgson, chairman of the East Midland Commissioners, was in the chair. Sitting with him were Mr. C. J. McDonald (Metropolitan) and Mr. W.•P. S. Ormond (Eastern).
in evidence, Mr. M. R.. A. Callis, Buckmaster's traffic manager, said that on
December 23 he made observations of Western S.M.T. operations. He noted that their Glasgow-bound coaches picked up at Victoria. London, and at five points before Baldock and Biggleswade. There Was a stop for refreshments at Baldock. ' Last Sunday. be observed that Western S.M.T. provided a setting-down point and refreshment stop at Baldock on the return journey from. Glasgow.
Questioned by Mr. F. D. Walker on Buckmaster's method of calculating depreciation, he agreed that the yearly figure for a new long-distance coach might well be £500, to be charged against fewer than 30 journeys. Wages were calculated by the company's accountants at 2s: Ild. per hour.
Mr: D. B. Teiwse, Buckmaster's managing director, said their wage rate had been agreed with the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1950. It had been increased since with overtime and other emoluments, and his drivers were not paid less than the national average. Answering Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon. he agreed that his most recent estimates • demanded 19 passengers as a minimum economic loading.
Mr. Gibbon then submitted that no evidence had been produced to support the excursion licence application, which should be refused.
• Mr. M. Rounding, a road traffic inspector for the railways, claimed that existing services to Glasgow bad not been fully used in recent years. In crossexamination, he agreed that Aylesbury passengers would find it more convenient to travel to a London terminus to connect with a Scottish express. He also agreed that return journeys sometimes involved more than one change of train and delays of up to 87 minutes.
" For United Counties, Mr. C. Buckmaster, traffic superintendent, said the company provided good connecting services with the trunk coach routes. To this, Mr. J. A. Haynes, for Buckmaster's, suggested that United Counties might well benefit from the proposed service.
For the Scottish Bus Group, Mr. R. M. Palmer, special duties officer, said the Glasgow to London services had been established for 30 years. They operated.
efficiently, with booking arrangements throughout the catchment area in question. The maximum number of vehicles permitted per day was 34 and a vacant seat was a rarity.
25-YEAR DRIVING BAN FOR VAN OFFENCES
FINES totalling £75, with a 25-year driving ban, were imposed at Burton-on-Trent, last week, on Leslie George Southwell, Arch Street, Rugeley, who admitted five offences, These were fraudulently using an Excise licence on a van (fined £25 or three months), using the van without an Excise licence (£10 or two months), carrying goods in it without a C licence (£10 or two months), driving without a Licence (£5 or one month), driving uninsured. (£25 or three months, and a 25-year disqualification).
The prosecution alleged that when Southwell bought the van from a dealer he took an Excise licence from a car in the dealer's yard, He did not have a driving licence or any insurance cover and had never applied for a C licence.