TRIBUNAL SETTLES 80 AWARDS
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SINCE the London Passenger Transport Arbitration Tribunal was established in September, 1938, it has issued 80 awards, orders and approvals of agreements by concerns, the undertakings of which have been transferred to the Board.
The Tribunal has sanctioned in these 80 awards the payment of cash amounting to £2,295,395, and the issuing of stock of a face value of £2,566,05g. These payments were in respect of 65 undertakings. The claims of the independent operators originally amounted to over £9,000,000, but some were substantially modified.
These -facts were given by Mr. Joshua Scholefield, KG., president of the Tribunal, on Monday, in a review of the Tribunal's work. He said that that day's hearing might be the last.
Settlements were submitted in respect of Mr. C. H. Pickup, Messrs. Empress Motors, and Messrs. Powell and Whybrow. In the case of Mr. Pickup, payment of £46,000 was agreed, and for Messrs. Empress Motors £24,500. Messrs. Powell and Whybrow asked for £3,606, but the Board offered £1,250. The Tribunals awards will be issued later.
TRAMS IN MANY ACCIDENTS.
THAT the "obsolete tramway 1 system" on the Great North Road, at Newcastle, should be replaced by some other form of modern transport, was the view expressed by Mr. H. Studdy, chief constable of Northumberland, at the opening of Northumberland Quarter Sessions at Newcastle. Mr. Studdy declared that tramcars were involved in 24 per cent. of the road accidents in the area.
BUSMEN AGAINST HARSH FINES.
.THE heavy fines imposed upon bus 1 employees has resulted in 400 Aberdare workers holding a meeting and passing a resolution of protest. The men allege that unfair treatment is meted out to bus employees by harsh penalties imposed on them for alleged breathes of the law. The resolution of protest, to be brought to the notice of local and other magistrates, points out that the harsh penalties are imposed on "men whose living depends on their skill and careful handling of heavy passenger-carrying vehicles on roads that were not built to meet the demand of a modern road-transport-system."
The Aberdare Trades Council has decided to support the busmen in their protest.
CARDIFF WANTS MORE BUSES.
(IN Monday, Cardiff City Council (IN Monday, Cardiff City Council O after much debate, the recommendation (reported in last week's issue) that the AdamsdownReath Dock tramways be, in the greater part, replaced by a service of oil-engined buses.
• The council will shortly invite tenders for the supply of 56-seater oilers, at an estimated cost of about £20,350.
" HOURS " DRIVE IN NORTH. I T is reported that a drive is to be made to enforce observance of the drivers' hours regulations on small operators in the north.
MORE ROAD-RAIL TOURS.
DERMISSION has now been granted
by the East Midland Traffic Cornmissioners for Nottingham Corporation to run bus tours around the city. Each tour will start at the L.M.S. station, and will be run in conjunction with the railway company as part of a combined road-rail excursion.
L.P.T.B. GARAGE PLAN FAILS.
STRONG• opposition from Barnes P.--/Corporation resulted in a Select Com-mittee of the House of Commons rejecting, last week, the clause in London Transport's Bill under which it was proposed compulsorily to acquire a site in Barnes for the erection of a garage for 200 buses.
TWO TRANSPORT BOARDS IN NORTH?
TWO transport boards to control the railway and road passenger traffic in the Northern Area were suggested by the Mayor of Gateshead (Alderman J. White), at the hearing of evidence, at Newcastle, before the Royal Commission for the Unification of Tyneside Local Authorities.
Alderman White said that one board could control the area from Berwick to Hartlepool and the other from Hartlepool to Whitby. This, he suggested, would remove anomalies in fares, wages and services.
A few weeks ago, a suggestion was made by Newcastle City Council representatives that a board on the lines of London Transport could control road and rail services in the north-east.
OILERS SAVING PUBLIC PURSE.
MOTABLE economies effected by the
liuse of oil-engined buses are reported from two centres. At Lytham St. Annes, oilers are saving at least 2d per mile in operating costs. The vehicles are recording 12.91 m.p.g., as against 6.04 m.p.g. by the old petrol buses.
At a recent meeting, a councillor stated that had oil-engined buSes been running, this year, on the internalmunicipal services, there would have been a profit on the undertaking, instead of a loss of about £2,000.
At Swindon, the use of oil-engined buses has resulted in the power cost for petrol and oil being reduced to £7,764, compared with £8,710 in the previous year, when only petrol buses were run.
CITY COMPANY EXPANDING.
ELEVEN applications to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner have been made by the City Coach Co., Ltd., Kentish Town, London, N.W.5, for licences in respect of services operated by Mr. Tom Webster, Brentwood and District Motor Services, Ltd., Mr. F. H. Nugus and Mr. F. H. Fuller. Except in the case of Mr. Webster's LaindonLondon service, the _services are local.