Hours and Records Offences
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IN reply to Mr. Ernest Davies last week, I Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, gave details of prosecutions and convictions during the past four years under Section 19 of the 1930 Act, relating to drivers' hours, and Section 16 of the 1933 Act, pertaining to the keeping of records. Facts given are tabulated on this page.
Mr. Nugent, explaining why the prosecutions and convictions in the year ended September, 1957. were lower than in the previous periods, pointed out that between December and May enforcement activities were suspended as examiners were employed upon fuelrationing duties.
When four vacancies were filled, there would be 100 examiners permanently employed on enforcement work.
TUBELESS TYRES ON TITAN WITH the approval of the Ministry of VI' Transport, Southport Transport Department have experimentally fitted Goodyear tubeless tyres to the rear wheels of a Leyland Titan, thus becoming probably the first municipal undertaking to apply tubeless tyres to a double-decker. Another bus will be fitted with Firestone tubeless tyres this month. but again only at the rear.