COMPANY AND DRIVER FINED FOR SPEEDOMETER OFFENCE
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DIFFICULTIES of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., in keeping speedometers in good repair for 200 express buses were commented upon by Mr. A. F. Greenhalgh, in a ptosecution at Bolton, last week. It is unlawful for a bus not to be fitted with an efficient
• speedometer, and this offence was alleged against the company. Everything the company could do in the , public interests was done, said counsel, • and it was unfortunate that a repaired speedometer had not been returned in time.
The driver was fined £2 and the company £2.
PLANET PRODUCTS FOR CABS OF LORRIES AND BUSES
Oold friea., Percy Lane, of Percy N./Lane, Ltd., Planet• Works, Tyburn Road, Erclington, Birmingham, 24, has sent us three interesting and wellillustrated leaflets, which, whilst utilizing little paper, embody a large amount of information concerning various Planet products, such as cab windows, visors, louvies, and screens for coaches and buses. These components are of excellent design, workmanship and material.
PUBLIC HEALTH AFFECTED BY SPARSE BUS SERVICES
S"ANSEA Corporation is to collect evidence in connection with complaintsabout the inadequacy of the re%tricted war-time ,bus service in the town and to prepare a case for a fuller service for consideration . by the Regional Transport Commissioner.
When the corporation recently met a councillor described conditions at town termini as a "case of the survival of the fittest.'` Another declared that the service was seriously 'affecting the people's health as well as their morale.
The meeting was not all criticism, for reference was made to the splendid manner in which the bus company (the South Wales Transport Co.) had adapted its services to meet conditions during air raids.