A LTHOUGH a double stamp of the foot on the floor
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of the upper deck was recognized by bus crews as a starting
• signal, it was strictly forbidden by regulations. Walsall magistrates were told this, on Monday, when the driver and conductor of a Walsall Transport Department bus, from which an 87-yearold woman fell, appeared before them. The men, Sydney Clifford Colebach, Edison Road, Walsall, driver, and Robert William Davies, St. Clements Avenue, Learhore, Walsall, conductor, pleaded not uilty to failing to take all reasonable precautions to ensure the safety of passengers alighting from the bus.
Colebach was fined £1 and Davies £3.
The passenger, Mrs. Eliza Brant, Lumley Road, Walsall, died from injuries which she received when she fell, from the bus, said Mr. D. Wassell, prosecuting. The bus moved off before she could be helped from the platform by her sister, he said.
Colebach said that he started the bus after the conductor had stamped his foot. He agreed that this was against regulations, but said that he would have started the bus just the same if he had received the signal by the bell.
He also agreed with Mr. Colin Coode, defending, that a cab mirror would be more satisfactory than the present "nearside exterior mirror.
Mr. Goode commented: "I don't know how on earth you are supposed to drive a bus Without having the faintest •ide.is of what is going on inside."
U.S. FORD TO BUILD 29-TON DIESELS •
THE Ford Motor Co. of America plans to enter the diesel lorry field this autumn with vehicles having a gross weight of some 29 tons.
Although the Detroit headquarters of the company refused to comment on the project, officials at Louisville confirmed that a production line was being installed there for diesel lorries of " about the size of the biggest trucks on the road."
Ford, believed to be working on their own diesel engines, are far from having any such power unit ready for use. The new vehicles will have Cummins engines. Beginning in October, initial production at Louisville is planned at one vehicle per hour.
DYSON DOING WELL
AN excellent general trading position and a full order book were reported to shareholders on Tuesday by Mr. Joseph T. Dyson, chairman and managing director of R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd.
NEW LONDON STAFF MEETING
ANOTHER meeting was held yesterday between London Transport and the Transport and General Workers Union to discuss the urgent heed for more staff. The Busmen have rejected a bonus scheme.