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Council Sued Road

25th January 1957
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Alleged Dangerous IN the Court of Session, last week, Lord Mackintosh allowed a proof in an action by the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., against Greenock Town Council for £f,656 damages arising from three bus accidents which occurred within 2+ months on a stretch of road in Greenock. The company alleged that the surface on the down gradient of Kilmalcolm Road was dangerous and unsuitable for traffic. In each accident a single-decker had skidded, and eventually buses were diverted from the route.

The council closed the road in September, 1955, for resurfacing—not, it was stated, because the surface was defective, but to obviate a dispute. The council maintained that in the summer of 1955 the surface was in accordance with recognized good practice, and believed that a large amount of oil was deposited on the road by vehicles, particularly the company's buses.

Lord Mackintosh rejected a plea by the council that the action was incompetent because three separate accidents could not be dealt with in one action. He held that the procedure was competent, and said that it. was to be preferred for reasons of economy to the raising of three separate actions.

[The Commercial Motor on December 3, 1954, published an article, "When Highway Authorities Can Be Sued."1

EXTRA 2s. 6d. FOR BUSMEN?

SUBJECT to the approval of the city council's establishment committee, Birmingham Transport Department is to pay its drivers and conductors an extra 2s. 6d. a week. The rise would meet a claim made by the Transport and General Workers' Union, following the award of an extra 7s. 6d. a week to London bus workers.

If it is confirmed, the additional 2s. 6d. will be backdated to January 14, It would cost the undertaking 141,000 a year.

SHORT-TIME WORKING IGHTY shop stewards, representing about 3,000 drivers and mates in the Manchester area, reported at a special meeting in Manchester last Sunday that fuel rationing had caused some voluntary short-time working and reductions in earnings of up to £2 a week. So far, however, there was little real unemployment.


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