THREE CORPORATIONS.. TO BUY .1PRIVATE SERVICES.
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IT is liuderstood that the corporations
of :Bolton, Salford and Bury have agreed jointly to,purchase the bus under-. takiog of Mr. H. G. Orr, of Little Lever. We .are informed that Mr. Orr's garages will not be taken over.
Mr, C. P. Paige, A.M.Inst.T., general manager of Bury's transport depart-. ment, told The Commercial Motor that he was not in a position to divulge details of the purchase 'price, beyond the fact that each. corporation would pay a sum in accordance with the portion of Mr. Orr's undertaking. acquired. . A figure of about £19,000 has, however; been mentioned.
Some time ago a conbiderable public outcry arose as the result of the Commissioners curtailing Mr. Orr's services.
MR. STIRK WARNS OPERATORS ON FUTURE POLICY.
THE first sitting of the third year of operation of the Road Traffic Act was held in the East Midland Area, at Nottingham, on Tuesday last. Mr.
H. Stirk, the chairman, made a few comments for the future guidance of operators. Where increases in coordinated services are desired, the consent of all parties to any variation of the licence must be obtained before application is made.
In future, objectors will have to give precise details of their cases, this ruling applying to the railway companies as much as to road-transport operators, and, in some cases, more so. Where objectors withdraw on the day of the sitting, they must, in future, advise the applicant and the Commissioners, so that unnecessary expense of appearing at the sitting should not he borne by the applicant.
Mr. Stirk intimated that there will not be the number of prosecutions previously brought against operators for infringements of the Road Traffic Act, but the Commissioners will, in some cases, use their powers to suspend licences.
BLUMERS AND U.A.S.
IN connection with the paragraph published in last week's issue, Blumers Motors, Ltd., informs us that there is no foundation in the rumour that the company may shortly be merged with United Automobile Services, Ltd.
MeSHANE'S RULES NISI AGAINST M. OF T. DISCHARGED.
A KING'S Bench Divisional Court,
consisting of Lord Hewart and Justices Avory and Humphreys, last week discharged rules nisi obtained by MeShane's Motors, Ltd., Liverpool, to prevent a decision of the Minister of Transport from becoming effective.
The ease is complicated and is of long standing. In November, 1931, the Merseyside Touring Co. withdrew an application to the North-Western Traffic Commissioners for licences in respect of routes from Bootle to Liverpool, and early in the following month the MeShane's concern made an application for licences. Some days later Liverpool Corporation applied for various licences, but withdrew its application in respect of the facilities in question. In February, 1932, the Merseyside concern went into liquidation, and the North-Western Commissioners granted the licences to McShane's Motors, Ltd., and refused an application from Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.
The chief point in the case was whether Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., which had absorbed the Merseyside Touring Co., was properly constituted an applicant. The Ribble concern was associated with the Merseyside Co. as an applicant for a joint service, and when the latter was absorbed by the former it was held that the Ribble organization was excluded on the ground that it had not made its application in the proper form. When the Commissioners granted the licences to McShane's an appeal was lodged by Ribble Motor Services and Liverpool Corporation (the latter on the ground that the licences should not have been issued to McShane's). The Minister reversed the Commisaioner's decision and granted the licences to the Ribble concern.
In giving judgment, the Lord Chief Justice said that there was no defect in the Ribble undertaking's application or title when the Merseyside concern withdrew. There was no fault to And with the Minister's decision.
FLAT-RATE FARES URGED.
WHEN Manchester City Council holds its June meeting, Councillor G. Hall will 'put forward a suggestion that the fares charged on the municipaltransport system should be on a flat rate of id. or 11d. It is stated that some 75 per cent, of the tramways revenue is derived from Id. or lid. fares, and it is believed that the added inducement offered to the public to travel would offSet any sacrifice of revenue from fares higher than 14d.
BUSES REDUCE JOURNEY TIME BY OVER 50 PER CENT.
OWING to public works being en
gaged upon in the King Edward and Bryn Road, Swansea, the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., is running doubledeck buses on the Swansea DocksBryrunill route, in place of the tramcars. The buses perform the journey in less than. half the time taken by the trams, and representations are suggested with a view to making the bus service a' permanency.