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• An Industrial Tribunal in Carlisl week turned down a bus driver-condu application for reinstatement after dist by Ribble Motor Services. Richard Nugent, of Lund Crescent, Carlisle. told by the chairman, Sir John Ainley the Tribunal found he had not been ire dismissed; the complaint which had 1 his dismissal was not the first one.
Nugent said he was starting duty service from the town hall to a hospital at 3.44 pm. with two minutes his passengers and their fares when a first in the queue with her husband, o When he said he had no change, sl her temper and told him she would get change and if he did not wait he would trouble.
After collecting the rest of the fare Nugent told the husband he would lu go and the bus left at 3.51 pm — minutes late. Some passengers were go work at the hospital and could WE longer. He returned from the hospital t another driver was waiting and he interviewed and dismissed; his later al against the dismissal were also refuse heard afterwards that the woman an husband were visiting at the hospita were taken there by the company by c.
Ribble's assistant traffic manager, A. Townley, agreed that Mr Nugent h float for change when he started dut maintained that he could have tried change himself, or taken the mone: marked on the ticket what was OWI taken names and addresses. There hac a previous complaint against involving change.