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Onslaught on Coach Party Operations
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itylASS prosecutions against coach 1v1 operators doing what they thought to be private-him work without road service licences are being undertaken in the Metropolitan Area. What is believed to be the 14th prosecution of an operator running coaches to Wimbledon Speedway was heard by Feltham magistrates, last week. The defendant was Cosy Coaches, Ltd., 12, Cherry Orchard, Staines. It is understood that operators running to Wembley Stadium will receive' attention in the near future. Details of coaches are also being taken in car • parks near circuses and ice shows. Cosy Coaches, Ltd., was conditionally discharged on payment of £21 costs. The company was charged with running a coach to Wimbledon Speedway without a road service licence. The defence was that the vehicle was run on a special ocCasion, which the prosecution denied. Mr. L. Barker, prosecuting. said that a special occasion was analagous to race meetings and public gatherings. A London Transport inspector said in evidence that he travelled on a Cosy coach to Wimbledon Speedway on May 26, 1952. Passengers were picked up en route. After the meeting those who made the outward journey rejoined the coach. and fares were collected-3s. each—on the return journey. Mr. J. Wilmers, defending. held that it was a special occasion: The only evidence submitted, he said, was that vehicles had been run to Wimbledon for three years. The work tickets produced simply showed that a vehicle belonging to Cosy Coaches, Ltd., had gone to Wimbledon on six occasions. There was no proof that Wimbledon Speedway had been attended.
Mrs. R. E. Nealon, company secretary, sOid in evidence that the same people travelled to the speedway every week.
The bench found that it was not a special occasion, hut regarded the offence as purely technical.
LANCASHIRE DEMANDS ACTION ON ROADS
A COMMITTEE of Members of Parliament representing constituencies in Lancashire is to recommend its county colleagues, the day after Parliament reassembles, to press for a grant to facilitate a start on the new north-south road and the proposed high-level bridge across the Manchester Ship Canal at Barton, near Manchester. Lancashire County Council has been recommending this scheme for some years. It would start with the construction of by-passes at Preston and Lancaster and the bridge at Barton.
HULL EXPECTS £27,490 LOSS
HULL expects a loss on the municipal transport department for the year ended-March next, of £27,490. In the following year there is estimated to be a deficit of nearly £45,000.