Miners' Buses Must Carry Conductors
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ALTHOUGH they were not licensed to pick up in Doncaster, the applicants were doing so, and were taking no steps to stop it, the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, were told at Leeds last week, on behalf of Doncaster Corporation. S. Morgan, Ltd., Armthorpe, and .R. Store, .Ltd., and H. Wilson, Ltd., both of Stainforth, were applying for a substantive licence for a colliery service between Thorne Moorends and Yorkshire Main Colliery, Edlington. Mr. G. H. Wilson said in evidence that after the closing of Thorne Colliery the miners had been redistributed and they were seeking to carry the same passenger's to other pits.
After representations by Doncaster Corporation concerning indiscriminate picking up and setting down of miners in Doncaster, Mr. Wilson said they were prepared to give an undertaking that it would stop. Difficalties had arisen at halt signs and traffic signals because no conductors were carried, and miners who had missed the corporation bus "sneaked aboard." Told by Mr. Wilson that double-deck buses were being operated, the chairman, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, said it was essential that conductors be carried on this type of bust the present Method was both illegal and dangerous. The applications would be granted on the understanding that conductors would be carried on the vehicles.
BONUS PLAN CAUSED SPEEDING "1 WAS in a hurry to get another load," the driver of a six-wheeled lorry told a police constable after being stopped for travelling at a reported 50 m.p.h. The driver explained, that he was working on a• bonus scheme under which the more loads he carried the more money he received, Leslie Valentine Lees, Old Farm, Iverley, near Stourbridge, was fined £3 for exceeding the 20 m.p.h. Emit at Kidderminster last week, John Cyril Emerson, secretary of Messrs. Emerson and Onions. New Road, Kidderminster, owners of the vehicle, was lined £10 as the lorry had no speedometer.
MOBILE SHOP RESTRICTIONS? A RESOLUTION urging greater control over the trading times of travelling shops was passed by the council of the north-eastern area of the National Chamber of Trade, at York, last week. This followed reports of a great increase in after-hours trading by mobile shops in the north of England.