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Small Passenger service Proprietors Must Co-operate.
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-IN all the discussion and cogitation that are taking place in connection with the measures of the Road "Traffic Act, one outstanding lesson is to be learned. This is the need for co-operation amongst independent operators of regular coach and bus services, so that united they may face licensing and other difficulties that must result from the new legislation. It is almost certain that in several areas, when the Area Commissioners get to work, they will on some routes find it necessary to reduce the" number of existing road-service licences, and the question will then arise as to whose licences are to be cancelled. It is even within the power of these Commissioners to hold the balance between road and rail in the provision of adequate transport facilities. The cancellation of one or two licences on a particular route is a more serious thing by far to a small operator than it is to a large and powerful concern, and it is this factor which points plainly to the need for association between the small independent operators. If they tight amongst themselves to obtain licences and in other matters they will present an easy 'prey to the larger concerns. In some respects the smaller operators, who have withstood for many years all tenmtatiou to amalgamate and who, rightly or wrongly, attribute to this the measure of success which they have obtained, are inclined to be conservative, to the degree of fearing that any form of association means partial amalgamation or leads the way to complete amalgamation. This Is not so at all; financial independence may well he preserved while association to safeguard licensing interests is negotiated. The need is urgent in the light of the new Act.