Bus Owner and Organizer Fined
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TwCImen, Horace Clifford Davies, owner of a small bus, and Robert Marsh, organizer of Sunday journeys from Leicester, were fined at Leicester magistrates' court, on Monday, for permitting the use of an 11-seater bus as an express carriage without a road service licence. They were each fined £5 with £3 13s. 6d. costs. Both pleaded not guilty.
Prosecuting, Mr. John Bray said that 15 journeys from Leicester had been made' to Kirby Bellars on Sunday evenings between November, 1959, and March this year. He alleged that Marsh, as organizer, had collected £1 10s. from the passengers which he gave to Davies. The average return charge for the journey was 3s. per passenger. The journeys were regular and separate fares were paid.
Mr. J. Barlow, defending, said that the coach had not gone to Kirby Bellars every week. It had also gone to Quorn, Barrow-on-Soar, Whetstone, Gilmorton and Glenfield. "This was a purely private party of friends who wanted to go out on a Sunday evening and arranged for Mr. Davies to take them out," Mr. Barlow submitted.
He considered that the journeys had not been regular enough for the men to be guilty. Passengers boarded the vehicle at the starting point before deciding where they were going each evening, he added.