Bultuell Transport Fined E -I OR failing to observe the conditions
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of their B licence, the Bulwell Transport Co., Ltd., Linby Street, Nottingham, were fined £10, with £1 10s. costs, at Nottingham last week.
Mr. R. S. Whitby, for the East Midland Licensing Authority, said that the company were permitted to operate within only a 25-mile radius of Bidwell, but in February their lorry was used to carry loads to and from Liverpool, receiving a sum of £5 5s. for the outward journey and £14 16s. 5d. for the return. • The company pleaded guilty. Mr. J. Langham, for the defence, said that a vehicle which should have carried the outward load broke down and a suitable replacement could not be found. The company felt under an obligation to carry out their order.
GOLDEN BUSINESS TO BE TRANSFERRED
BECAUSE of the credit squeeze, Messrs. J. Golden and Son, Gateshead, were prevented from properly replacing vehicles in their fleet, and therefore the business was to be disposed of to a well-known operator in the area who was prepared to introduce capital for complete reorganization.
The Northern Licensing Authority learned this when the firm reappeared before him, having in May had to show cause why their B licences should not be suspended or revoked. His examiners had reported that three of the company's vehicles were now in running order, but three were still off the road.
One vehicle was suspended from licence for a month.
MINISTER REJECTS COUNCIL'S APPEALS AGAINST FARES
APPEALS by two local authorities against fare increases granted to Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd., have been rejected with costs by the Minister of Transport. The appellants were the Bagshot and Hambledon rural district councils.
In his decision, the Minister stated tkal in arriving at the conclusion that the fares fixed by the South Eastern Licensing Authority were not unreasonable, he had had regard, among other matters, to the evidence that some of the services would continue to be unremunerative at the revised rates.
NO LICENCES: E30 FINES FINES of £10 in each of three cases involving the use of unlicensed coaches were imposed on Smith Coaches (Oldham), Ltd., by Oldham magistrates, last week. The company were also ordered to pay £4 4s. advocate's fee. It was said by the North Western Licensing Authority that coaches had been used without licences for carrying people. from an Oldham dance hall to Rochdale and other places, and on an unlicensed works' service.