C-licensee Claims "Petty Persecution"
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A STRONG protest against "petty 21. persecution" and "astonishing lack of imagination or sense of proportion" was made by the managing director of Somerset Motors. Ltd.. at Cullumpton (Devon) magistrates' court last week. The company was summonsed for failing to cause a current record of work to be kept by one of their van drivers and a plea of guilty was entered. But Mr. A. G. Wilson, managing director of Somerset Motors, put in a 1,100-word statement in which he attacked the stupidity of the regulation being applied to such vehicles as theirs, which were in constant use by different drivers in connection with motor car repair services. The regulation, he argued, was designed to control the hours of driving when drivers were engaged on longdistance travel, so that there was no risk of undue fatigue which might endanger driving. But to apply it to the type of work which their firm did was "futile and showed a quite astonishing lack of proportion and sense of imagination." Announcing a tine of £10. the chairman of the Bench, Mr. J. A. Blackmore. said the excuse was absurd.
Room For Buses
" THERE has been a widespread tendency throughout the world for public transport to decay, and for private transport to take its place. In the centrifugal city (as in the United States) this is inevitable, but in the closely nucleated conurbations of Europe an efficient transport system must still be considered as onc of the major contributions to the smooth functioning of city life." This was stated by Professor W. F. Cassie, head of the Department of 'Civil Engineering, Durham University, in an address to the Sixth Assembly of the World Touring and Automobile Organization.