Coach Company Fined E30: Licence Breaches
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EINES totalling £30, with £20 costs, I were imposed at Salisbury, last week, on Silver Star Motor Services, Ltd., Porton, when they were found guilty of contravening the conditions of express I icences (The Commercial Motor. February 20). Mr. G. L. Lush, prosecuting, said two of the three summonses related to passengers being carried from Middle Wallop to Birmingham without prior arrangement with Wilts and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd.—the licence stipulated that Silver Star should not pick up at Middle Wallop without an arrange. ment with the big company. The other summons alleged that Silver Star used three instead of two coaches on their Tidworth-Birmingham route on November 7. The onus was on them to comply with the conditions of their licences, be said, and it appeared that adequate supervision had not been carried out to ensure that the conditions were observed. Mr. Lush alleged that Servicemen boarded a coach at Middle Wallop and changed at Tidworth, booking to Birmingham on the vehicle. They had been taken to Birmingham and back for a return fare of £1. Mr. Donald Parson, a Silver Star inspector_ recalled that on November 7 there was a block leave for one regiment and emergency arrangements were made. Passengers were definitely told that they could not be taken from Middle Wallop to Birmingham. Imposing £10 fines for each offence, Aid H. E. Cooke, chairman, said the magistrates realized how difficult it was to comply with complicated regulations. but they thought that in these cases there had not been adequate supervision. Silver Star had pleaded not guilty to all three summonses.