NCP's airport bus fines
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NATIONAL Car Parks Ltd has been fined a total of £200 plus £250 costs by Crawley Magistrates for bus operating offences at Gatwick Airport.
On May 5, 1980, two buses owned by NCP, but in the name of Capital Coaches, were seen at Lower Terminal Road, Gatwick, collecting passengers for transit to NCP's long-term car park. NCP were allowed to use sevenseat minibuses, but the vehicles stopped on May 5 had capacity for 41 and 33 passengers respectively.
Peter Cooper, for NCP, said that an NCP transport manager was earlier told by the company to obtain a psv .:ence. An interim licence was granted but the transport manager had died in August 1979 and no one else ' knew that such a licence had been obtained.
For failing to comply with a condition of a road service licence the company was fined £75 for each bus, and was also fined £50 because the vehicle did not carry first-aid equipment.
The company pleaded guilty to those four offences, but charges of failing to display "on hire to" signs in the vehicle were dismissed.