Appeal for Theatre Service Fails

26th September 1958, Page 119

26th September 1958

Page 119

Page 119, 26th September 1958 — Appeal for Theatre Service Fails

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AN appeal by Seamarks Bros. Ltd. (The Commercial Motor, May 23 and June 6) against the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner's refusal to allow them to run excursions from Luton to London theatres has been dismissed by the Minister of Transport.

He says that difficulties of theatregoers in returning home from Luton railway station late at night had been removed by the Commissioner, who had allowed United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd.. and Luton Corporation to provide late-night services from the station. 'Seamarks had not appealed against these arrangements.

To have granted the application would have caused appreciable abstraction of traffic from existing services for Luton theatre-goers, and especially from the railways. Existing facilities were adequate.

The Minister points out that the Seamarks case was not analogous in all respects to an application which the Metropolitan Deputy Commissioner had granted, allowing an operator in another town in the Home Counties to run evening excursions to London theatres.

FINES FOR OVERLOADING nRIVERS employed by M. Lodge and L." Co., Ltd., Barnsley Road, Wakefield, are instructed to carry underweight loads rather than risk breaking the law. the company told Sheffield magistrates last week. Lodge's 'admitted seven charges of allowing lorries to carry overloads and were fined a total of £21..

For the prosecution it was stated that four drivers were stopped within hours of each other and all were carrying too much ore on their vehicles. Although only a small amount of lorry space was occupied, the overloading varied from 14 to 4 tons.

The drivers were each fined i3.