Sheriff Criticizes Wording of Licence
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STRONG remarks were made by Sheriff Miller in Stornoway Sheriff Court, last week, about the wording of a public service vehicle licence, when Angus John Macleod, managing director of the Lochs Motor Transport Co., was charged with a contravention of the terms of his company's licence for the Ranish-Stornoway service.
A complaint had been lodged that on June 10, the 4.15 p.m. service started from the company's garage, instead of the bus stand in the village of Ran.sh, two miles away. The police contended in evidence that the starting point, as given in " Notices and Proceedings," meant the bus stand, but the company held that what was really intended was a road junction half a mile from the garage.
The Sheriff found that the bus did leave the garage at 4.15 p.m. and fined Macleod it. He stated: " I cannot understand why this licence cannot be put in such a way that a person of reasonable intelligence can find the beginning a.td end of it."
I.R.T.E. FIXTURES
FORTHCOMING fixtures of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers are as follows: December I, North-eastern Centre, annual dinner, Guildhall Hotel, Leeds, 7.30 p.m.
December 4, Scottish Centre, paper on welding, by G. Mackenzie Junner, Institution of Shipbuilders and Engineers, Glasgow, 7.30 p.m.
December 6, North-western Centre, open meeting, Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 7 p.m.
December 12, Fast Midlands branch, talk on fuel injection, by R. Logan, Engineers' Institute, Nottingham, 7 .30 p.m.
December 14, London Centre, talk on vehicle ventilation and heating, by F. W. Duncombe, Royal 'Society of Arts, London, W.C.2, 6.30 p.m.
December 15, South Wales Group, talk on rear-axle development, by T. R. Beady, South Wales Institute of Engineers, Cardiff, 7 p.m.
December 18, Midlands Centre, Mr. Junner's paper, Crown Inn, Birmingham, 7.30 p.m.
December 21, North-eastern Centre, talk on transport law, by H. Mann, 1V1etropole Hotel, Leeds, 7 p.m.
GRANTS TO FARMERS TO COST £24M.
TO offset the higher price of petrol. I. grants will be paid to farmers under the Draft Petrol-driven Agricultural Machines (Grants) Scheme. 1950, which the House of Commons approved last week.
Machines covered include tractors, Jeeps and Land-Rovers used for farm work only. Grants range from £22 10s. a year for some tractors that run on petrol, to 16s. for tractors using petrol for starting only. About 500,000 machines qualify for the grants, which will total some £21m. a year.
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