Directors Were Not Users
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TWO company directors, convicted of using a lorry with inefficient brakes,' successfully appealed in the Queen's Bench Divisional Court last week. Arthur Crossfield, Daisy Lea Farm, Sowerby Bridge, and Benjamin Roy Lewis, Woodside Road, Beaumont Park, Huddersfield, had been convicted at Halifax in April, 1955. The vehicle concerned had been involved in a fatal accident.
Lord Goddard, the Lord Chief Justice, said that although the ownership of the vehicle had been discussed • before the magistrates, the only question was who was using it. The magistrates found that Arthur Crossfield (Transport), Ltd., of which Crossfield and Lewis were directors. were employed on the day in question to carry milk bottles and used the lorry for the purpose.
The police, said Lord Goddard, had been confused between owner and user. The magistrates ought to have held on the evidence before them that the company, and not the appellants, were the users.
The appeals were allowed with costs.
NATIONALIZATION IN CEYLON LIKELY
MATIONALIZATION of bus services
is likely to be an early task of the new Ceylon Government. Monopolized routes were introduced to the country by Mr, S. W. Nelson, now Western Licensing Authority, who sought to organize Ceylon's transport services on a sound basis. He introduced a scheme which did away with competition on bus routes, but led to unhealthy developments among rival operators.
RAIL INTO ROAD?
THE management of the Bengal Provincial Railway and the State Government are discussing the conversion of the railway into a road transport service. The railway was started about 62 years ago along a 41-mile route. It serves an area of some 400 sq. miles but has been losing money for sonic years.