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A VEHICLE for collection and ri delivery to supplement a trunk service operated by two vehicles could not be justified, Mr. A. J. F. Wrottesley, for the British Transport Commission, told Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North "Western Deputy Licensing Authority, on Monday. The B.T.C. objected to an application by . Tirnperley Coachways, Timperley, for a B licencefor a pantechnicon.
Mr. H. Robinson, for the applicants, said that, two of their A-licensed vehicles were employed upon a nightly trunk service between Manchester and London. A Vehicle was required for collection and delivery within eight miles of base, because of—the difficulty of hiring transport. The other Alicensed vehicle owned by the firm was fully employed on furniture removals and other day-time work.
Mr. Wrottesley submitted that there was no case to answer. The applicants had produced no figures of split deliveries, and the Transport Tribunal had indicated .that in such cases evidence had to be precise. Many. of the hiring difficulties encountered bY'the applicants had been caused by fuel rationing.
Mr. Lindsay refused the aPplication, saying that it was tbCi ambitious, considering the size of the long-distance fleet concerned.
SKYWAYS LONDON-PARIS. FARE UP DECAUSE international air fares have been increased, new summer fares for the coach-air service to Paris operated by Skyways, Ltd., 7 Berkeley' Street, London, W.1, have been advanced, but the off-peak return fare of -E7 19s. is stated to be much less than the cost of surface travel.
The standard return fare is £:9 19s. and the mid-week 234day'return 18 19s. The single fare is E5 8s. 6d. Fares are also quoted for the journeys from London to Beauvais, Lympne to Paris, and Lymptie to Beauvais.
Overall journey time from capital to capital is under six hours.
0.S. MAP FOR OPERATORS
TH E first sheet of a new series of maps covering the whole of Great Britain has been published by the Ordnance Survey. It shows North Wales and Lancashire, and although intended for drivers, it would seem to be more suitable, because of the absence of an index to places, as a wall map for use in the offices of transport operators.
Clarity and wealth of detail are up to the standard expected of the Ordnance Survey, and the map is sold flat
• at 3s., or folded at 5s. A folded linenmounted edition costs 7s. The scale is approximately four miles to the inch. .Dimensions of the flat map are 2 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. wide. Publication of the full set of maps' will take six years.