Heavy Fines on Coach Operator
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BECAUSE he carried airmen on leave to London from Oakington R.A.F. station without a road service licence, Cetil William Blank ley, trading as Gen Coaches, Colsterworth, near Grantham, was ordered to pay fines and costs amounting to £66 10s. 4d. at Cambridgeshire Divisional Court.
Prosecuting, Mr. S. J. Green said that the journeys did not amount to special occasions. A traffic examiner stated that the defendant had told him that he regarded the trips as straightforward business, having received definite orders from organizers. The money for the various journeys had been sent to Blankley by post.
Airmen witnesses who had organized journeys said that they had collected fares from other passengers, and the defendant then changed his plea from not guilty to guilty, saying that he did not know that separate fares had been collected by one person from others. He asked for 44 other cases to be taken into consideration. He did not allow his drivers to collect separate fares, he said.
LUXURY FOR 11 8s, 6d. LESS THAN RAIL FARE
AN application to run tours from Sheffield to Torquay on Friday evenings, returning on the following Saturday, from Whitsuntide until September, was made last week to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority by Mr. C. G. Littlewood, Burngreave Road, Sheffield. He proposed to charge a fare of £2 10s.—£1 8s. 6d. less than the railways—for the 556-mile round journey. Luxury coaches had been provisionally ordered and hostesses would be carried.
British Railways and Sheffield United Tours objected. Decision was reserved.
EXCURSIONS TO HELP COAL PRODUCTION
APLEA that the excursions would help coal production by removing the temptation to miners to miss a Saturday shift so that they could attend football matches, was made before the East Midland Licensing Authority last week by Messrs. W. and N. R. Lander, of East Rainworth, when they applied for permission to operate excursions from Rainworth to Sheffield and Nottingham. The application, which was granted, was limited to the football and pantomime seasons.
FISHERMEN WANT COACHES
FIVE Sheffield coach operators have applied to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority for permission to increase the number of vehicles that they are allowed to use for fishing excursions.
It was stated at the hearing, which was adjourned, that the Court of Appeal had ruled that the carriage of fishing parties by private hire was illegal.
The applicants were Mr. E. Jetrcock, Mr. G. E. Whiteley, Mr. H. Jackson, Sansam Bros. (Sheffield), Ltd., and Messrs. Law Bros.