Aylesbury Inquiry Adjourned Again
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AFTER a hearing which had already lasted six days, the inquiry into applications for direct express period coach
services and feeder services, before the East Midland Traffic Commissioners at Aylesbury last week, was again adjourned until July 1.
Applications were being .made for direct services to south and east coast
resorts by Keith Garages, Ltd., Ayles bury; Buckmaster Garages, Ltd., Leighton Buzzard, and United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd. Feeder services were required by United Counties and Seamarks Bros., Ltd., Westoning, Beds, to Luton, from
Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard respectively (The Commercial Motor, April 24 and June 5).
Previously during the hearing Mr. Jackson Lipkin, for Seamarks Bros., inti mated that if a feeder service from Ayles bury to Luton was granted only to United Counties, Seamarks' passengers would be carried by them. Mr. C. Buck master, of United Counties, had agreed that his company would do this, but later withdrew the statement.
Mr. Buckmaster said his company wanted a direct express service from
Aylesbury to Bournemouth and south coast resorts, plus a feeder service to Luton and picking-up points on the way— including Leighton Buzzard—to connect with his company's existing services.
Cross-examined by Mr. S. Terrell, for Keith Garages, Mr. Buckmaster admitted that the only reason that United Counties had applied for a direct service was because Keith Garages had made application,
Mr. R. J. Taylor, for Seamarks Bros., agreed that his company had been run
ing excursions from Leighton Buzzard since 1937, but had never before applied for a feeder from Leighton Buzzard to Luton, which, in effect, would be a direct service to the coast_ TEST ANTI-FUME DEVICE
ACATALYTIC device tested by the Warren Spring Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport, reduced pollution from petrol fumes effectively, and its suitability for oil engines was to be assessed.
This was stated by Mr. H. Nicholls, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, in the House of Commons last week. It was not possible at this stage, he added, to judge the device's prospects in reducing atmospheric pollution.
TWO MORE NEW OXFORD ROADS WORK is to start immediately on two VI' additional stretches of new road, which will nearly complete the ring of new roads enabling Oxford to be by-passed from any direction. Costing nearly 1300,000, they •are the northwestern by-pass, a continuation of the western by-pass, and the Gosford Hill link road at Kidlington, which will join the Banbury Road at the eastern end of the north-western by-pass.