Coach Summonses Dismissed
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QIX summonses at Marylebone Court last 'week by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority against Mr. George James Miller, trading as Miller and Sons, Purley Road Garage, Cirencester, Glos, for failing to comply with conditions of his road service licence in that passengers were not picked up in the coach station at Marylebone, London, that the timetable Was not adhered to, and that no service was operated from Marylebone on February 29, and March 2 and 30, were dismissed absolutely on payment of £12 12s. costs.
Mr. L. E. Barker, prosecuting, said that Mr. Miller -operated a service for R.A.F. • personnel, between South Cerney, Gies, and Marylebone. It was a condition that the vehicles should be run, as specified, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sunday nights. There was no service on the three dates stated. On March 23, when the timetable showed that the airmen were to be picked up at 11.30 p.m. at Marylebone, the coach did not arrive until midnight. Supporting the solicitor's statement, Mr. Edward John Hammond, senior traffic examiner, said that he kept watch at Marylebone coach station on those dates.
Cross-examined by Mr. John R. Amphlett, defending, .Mr. _Hammond said that he did not know that the coach had been operating from Mary, lebone at midnight for some time. Mr. Miller, giving eyidence, said that the times of operating were set out on the licence, but this also stated: "or at such times as required by the commanding officer," who had required the departure from Marylebone coach station to be at. midnight.