Drivers Cleared .Under New Act
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CHARGES against two drivers were 1,--• withdrawn before Boston Borough Court last week Under Section 29 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956. Leonard Edgar North, haulier and produce merchant. 9 Windsor Crescent, Boston. was disqualified from driving for a year and paid fines totalling DO, with £1 costs. for using two C-licensed vehicles to carry goods for hire or reward.
The drivers were prosecuted for insurance offences, but Police Supt. J. Arnold said that he was satisfied that under the 1956 Act they would have a defence under Section 29. It would be true to say, he submitted, that they had no reason to believe that proper insurances were not in force.
The lorries were seen in Boston carrying loads of steel sheet. North had been hired by the Tower Hill Transport Co. to do the work, but they were under the impression that A-licensed lorries would be employed. For North it was stated that the C-licensed vehicles had been sent out on the work in his absence, and he returned too late to remedy matters.
EXPORTS DELAY HOME ATLANTEANS THE volume of export orders for the Leyland Atlantean is stated to be the reason why Wallasey Transport Department have been quoted delivery dates in 1959-60. Yesterday the town council were to consider the transport committee's recommendation that 20 he purchased at a cost of £6,250 each.
Atlantcans will be able to use the slow lane in the Mersey tunnel, as their overall height is 13 ft. 5 in., compared with the present 14 ft. 6 in. of high' bridge buses ill use in Wallasey.
WHAT IS PUBLIC TRANSPORT'S ' FATE?
" WHAT is going to be the fate of all public transport in its struggle with private transport? To what extent will rohd transport ultimately supersede the railways, and to what extent has it already done so?"
These questions have been asked by Sir Anthony Babington, chairman of the Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal. who are in dispute with the Eire Transport Tribunal over the Ulster Government's proposals 'to end some services of the Great Northern Railway.
FINCHLEY—BUT NO FARTHER
UNDER the 20 m.p.h. speed limit, drivers from Longton, near Preston, can reach Finchley, in north London, within the statutory 11 hours, but can get no farther. If the limit were raised, they would be able to proceed to the centre of London.
Finchley Town Council, who have been studying the problem of heavy vehicles parked in local streets while en route to London, have been told this by a Longton produce concern, also that similar conditions apply to other Lancashire companies.