BREACH OF AGREEMENT ALLEGED ON APPEAL.
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BREACH of agreement by Grimsby Corporation was alleged on behalf of the LincolnshireRoad Car Co., Ltd., during the hearing of an appeal by the company against the East Midland Traffic Commissioners' action in granting licences to the corporation. Appeals were also entered by Mr. W. K. Dobbs and Mr. Wilson, two local operators.
It was stated that, in 1927, Grimsby boundary was extended by Act of Parliament, which provided that the corporation should not, for five years, operate buses in the extended area so long as the Provincial Tramways Co. did so.
In the present case, the Commissioners had granted the corporation services additional to those operating in 1932, when the local authority was refused permission to run a certain extra service.
The Lincolnshire company's case was that there had been no evidence of any change of conditions. The Corporation purchased the Provincial Tramways Company's services and those of another operator, and the Lincolnshire organization agreed to take over certain of the Provincial concern's ser CALL FOR ANOTHER LIGHTING REGULATION.
A"portant decision regarding the lighting of vehicles standing in public parking places has been issued by Sheriff Macmaster Campbell; of Campbeltown, in a case in which a bus driver was charged with having permitted his bus to stand on the Triangle, in Campbeltown, after the hours of darkness, without showing requisite lights.
The defence argued that the Triangle was not a road, being kerbed on three sides, and that, therefore, the lighting regulations did not apply. His Lordship, in the absence of directive authority, was unable to find that the triangular piece of ground was a road within the meaning of the regulations, and the prosecution failed. At the same time, he expressed the view that. in the interests of public safety, a further regulation dealing with the point was desirable.
COACH TRAVEL AS PRIZE. AFEW days ago, Fingland's Hite Cars, Ltd., Manchester, co' operated with the management of a local cinema in connection with the showing of a certain film. Patrons were required to state on a postcard their opinions of the film, and the two best efforts were awarded with free travel to London in a Fiugland coach and free seats at a London cinema,
23 MERGERS WITH D.U.T.
I N reply to a question raised in the Dail, Mr. Sean Lemma, Minister for Industry and Commerce, said that up to October 31 last, 23 bus companies were acquired by the Dublin Tramway Co., Ltd., and that at the time of acquisition, 705 persons were employed by those companies, of whom 698 had since been engaged by the D.U.T.
YORKSHIRE OPERATORS AT SCOTTISH SHOW.
Pl.A PARTY of 32 members of the Yorkshire Motor Coach Owners Association this week visited the Scottish Motor Show, at Glasgow, the journey being made in a Gilford Hera demonstration coach. After travelling from Yorkshire last Sunday, the party went on a short tour to Loch Lomond, on Monday morning, in an A.E.C. Regal oil-engined coach, and the afternoon was devoted to an inspection of the Show. The return journey to Yorkshire was made via Edinburgh, on Tuesday.
'SPECIAL OCCASION CAN BE ANNUAL?
A DECISION in the case in which ti the Tynemouth and District Electric Traction Co., North Shields, and Mr. G. Hogg, a hosiery worker, were charged with having used four buses as express carriages without a road service licence, has been given by Sheriff Bettie, of Hawick.
The Sheriff said that the defence was that the vehicles were used for a private party on a special occasion, and were, therefore, contract carriages. The persons travelling were friends of those who organized the excursion. It had been argued that as Mr. Hogg arranged this excursion annually it could not be held to be a special occasion. The Sheriff disagreed with this view and found for the defendants. The Procurator-Fiscal asked for a stated Case.
LEEDS LICENCE TRANSFER.
PiA N interesting development is foreshadowed in anapplication to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners by Leeds Corporation for permission to take over a service previously operated by the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd.