.C128 Penalties for Bus Offences
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FOR using buses without Excise licences and for other offences, Dolphin Motors, Ltd., Appleby Lane, Broughton. and William Milligan Nainby Manby. Low Road, Winterton, their traffic superintendent and foreman driver, paid a total of £128 8s. 6d, in fines and costs at Brigg Magistrates' Court last week.
Dolphin Motors were fined £60 for using buses without Excise licences, for not carrying a jack, £2 for two offences of not carrying first-aid equipment and LI for using a defective tyre. Manby was fined £25 on five summonses for aiding and abetting in the licence offences. Costs totalled £39 8s, 6d.
For the prosecution, Mr. John Baggott said that the company made a practice of applying for licences after vehicles had been stopped by the police. It had been suggested that letters had been posted on days other than those shown on the postmark.
For the defence, Mr. Lionel Rosen said there had been no attempt to evade tax.
MORE ONE-MAN BUSES FOR LONDON THREE routes from Kingston upon I Thames garage are to be converted to one-man operation by London Transport next June. They will be the first. other than country services, to be worked in this way. Forty vehicles are involved. Seventy conductors will be transferred to other depots.
Negotiations are to be held with the trade union on pay for the drivers. On country routes, drivers of one-man buses receive 13s. 6d. a week more than others.
LORRY'S ROPE KILLED WOMAN
AYOUNG mother was killed when a rope bounced from a lorry and swept her off her feet, it was stated at Sheffield. last week. The driver of the vehicle, Stanley Roberts, admitted using a vehicle on which a rope was not placed to avoid danger, and was fined £10 with £4 4s. costs.