SEASIDE EXCURSION OPERATORS FINED
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FOR picking up passengers at unauthorized points and cutting the time of their journeys between Lancashire and Devon, Stretford Motors, Ltd., Stretford, Manchester, were fined a total of £152 at Manchester last week, They were fined £20 on each of six charges of using unauthorized points, and £2 each on the 16 charges concerning journey times.
Mr. D. J. Turner, prosecuting for the North Western Traffic Commissioners, said journeys to Ilfracombe and Torquay had been completed in a day when, to conform to the licences, the trip should have taken two days. Passengers were also alleged to have boarded vehicles at places not specified on the licences.
Mr. E. A. Whitehead, defending, said that when the present owners acquired the business, a leaflet was in circulation describing a one-day journey to Torquay, and this did not seem unusual. Now they were having difficulty in persuading some of the more popular south coast hotels to accept four-day bookings.