RAILWAY SUGGESTS SPEED LIMIT FOR SIX-SEATER COACHES
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The Southern Railway Objects to Competing Fast . Road Services ATa recent sitting of the SouthEastern Traffic Commissioners, when Mr. F. G. Henderson, of Walthamstow, was granted a licence to run certain excursions with six-seater motors, the Southern Railway Co. put forward a strong objection to the application. The main point raised svas that of speed, the railway company rightly pointing out that, if express carriages of this type were to be permitted on the roads, unless their speed was expressly controlled by the Traffic Commissioners there would be no other legal limit of the rate at which they travelled. The
railway company submitted that it would be desirable for the Commissioners to impose speed-limit conditions when granting licences.
This is an important matter, and the reply of Mr. Rowand Harker, chairman of the Commissioners, is worth noting. He said that, whilst he was not giving a considered view on the point raised, there might be considerable
doubt whether the Commissioners had jurisdiction to attach such a condition to road-service licences.
Incidentally, it may be mentioned that, at the same sitting, Mr. M. Jacobs (Criterion Coaches), Mile End Road, London, E.1, was asked if he would accept an agreed schedule of minimum fares in respect of excursions and tours for which he applied for licences, and, after some discussion, he agreed to do so. The whole question of agreed fares was referred to on page 54 of our issue for last week. Late news regarding the South-Eastern Area appears on page 83,