Bus Owner Regains Employee's House
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A T Penrith County Court last week,
a bus proprietor, Ernest Hartness, Sandeate, Penrith, successfully claimed possession of premises in the town occupied by a former employee.
Plaintiff told Judge C. 13. Fenwick that he had engaged John P. Sowerby as a driver in 1954 and provided him with a rent-free house, on the understanding that he could live there as long as he was employed by the plaintiff. In January this yeax, Sowerby gave in his notice and was in turn served with a notice to quit the house. He did not go. Plaintiff required the house for another driver living in Dumfries.
Sowerby alleged that he left Hartness because he was required to work long hours and received no extra pay. There was no signed agreement about the terms of occupancy of the house.
The judge made an order for possession in five weeks.
MORE L.T.E. CAR PARKS A'part of a campaign to reduce West End traffic by encouraging motorists to complete their journeys by rail, the London Transport Executive will nearly double car-parking accommodation at Underground Stations.
There is already space for 1,340 cars at 39 stations. By providing three new car parks and enlarging seven others, accommodation for nearly 2,500 cars will be available.
SURFACE TREATMENT THEME QURFACE treatment for the improve ment of mechanical properties of metal and protection against corrosion will be the theme of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress to be held in Paris from June 4-9. The British speakers will be Dr. H. E. Gordon, of the Battell Development Corporation, Ltd., and Dr. S. Wernick, honorary secretary of the Institute of Metal Finishing.
S.U.T. Offer Six CoachAir Tours
SIX coach-air tours to the Continent are offered by Sheffield United Tours, Ltd., during the 1956 season. A new feature of this year's extensive programme is a 12-day tour to Lake Lucerne, at an inclusive cost of £32 Ils.
The combined coach and air holidays are: Ostend and Blankenberghe; Ostend and Paris (each seven days, £22 Is.); Montreux and Champery (eight days, 137 5s. 6d.); Holland and Denmark (14 days. £67 14s. 6d.); Vienna; Venice (each 15 days, £66 3s.).
Commons Support London Transport
'WHEN the House of Commons disVV cussed London traffic congestion last week, speakers on both sides mentioned the undesirable effects upon London Transport of the extensive use of private cars.
Lt.-Col, Marcus Lipton (Lab.., Brixton) thought that motorists could justifiably be asked to leave their cars at outer Underground stations and use public transport to enter the city.
Mr. Ernest Davies said that unless private motorists were curbed, the public service would be in dangcr.
Mr. J. Foster (Con., Northwich) suggested that outside premises where goods vehicles had to load and unload, posts should be erected to keep road space free of parking. He considered that more streets should be turned into one-way thoroughfares.
Mr. J. Langford-Holt (Con., Shrewsbury) said that street corners should be more rounded so that vehicles could turn more easily.
Mr. H. Molson, for the Ministry of Transport, said that it would never be possible for everyone to come to work by car.. Entry of private motorists into London would always have to be discouraged. It was desirable to speed up public transport.
COACH RALLY JUDGES NAMED
hiTOST sections of the transport 1111 industry are represented on the panel selected to judge the concours &elegance in the second British Coach Rally at Brighton on April 21 and 22. The members are:
Mr. J. N. McHattie, technical officer. Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders; Mr. L. J. Cotton, formerly technical editor of The Commercial Motor and now of Unilever, Ltd.; Mr. E. R. Fox, works director, Vanden Phis (England) 1923, Ltd.; Mr. W. Curtis Maton, engineering consultant, The Pressed Steel Co.; Aid. A. V. Nicholls, chairman of Brighton Transport Committee and of Nicholls and Co. (Brighton), Ltd.; Mr. C. E. Spencer, assistant director, wheeled vehicle production, Ministry of Supply; Mr. T. D. Carpenter, managing director, Hooper and Co. (Coachbuilders), Ltd.; Mr. G. Mackenzie Junner, editor, The Commercial Motor; Mr. P. Edwards. editor, Bus and Coach and Motor Transport; Mr. J. Speed, associate editor, Coaching Journal; and Mr. Raymond Baxter, motoring correspondent, B.B.C.
The organizers hope to add a lady to the panel.
NEW !TEARING PULLERS COMPREHENSIVE kits of indus
k-• trial ball-bearing pullers and extractors have been introduced by E F. Allchin and Co., 137 High Street, Birmingham, 6. The largest kit, comprising 15 tools, costs 152 2s. 6d., and the smallest, with eight pieces, £16 2s. 6d.