A bus proprietor who faced the Hemel Hempstead Magistrates on an overcrowding summons was said to have squeezed 45 passengers into a 20-seater bus. The magistrates retaliated by squeezing £4 out of the bus proprietor.
[From the Watford Observer of May 26, 1934]
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