kpproval for outlaw service
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'ORMER bus driver who had operated a service illegally was nted a licence to operate the service for the employees of one tory by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners last week.
Villiam Peacock had plied for a licence to operate ;ervice using a 12-seater iibus from Dalkeith, Edingh, to the Ranco factory Haddington. He had operd the service without a nce but had been warned [ stopped running.
)espite objections from Atish Omnibus, commis-ler A. B. Birnie granted cence for a service for the tory's night shift but he cted an application for a vice to take the day shift to [ from work.
cottish Omnibus told the nmissioners that the sera would abstract traffic .r) its services and mainled that an illegal operation not a good basis for an dication.
1r Peacock said that the vices run by Scottish would e twice to three times as g and would involve three es. He produced witnesses 3 said that they would lose ir jobs if the service ended. he commissioners decided that there would be no serious abstraction if the night service was run but decided that there was no sufficient case for the day service.
Mr Peacock was granted the licence to run the night service but not the day service using only a 12-seater minibus and limited to Ranco employees only.