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the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., required a radical overhaul, said Mr. F. Williamson, chairman of the North Western • Traffic Commissioners, last week. He was announcing the joint decision of the North Western and East Midland Commissioners to approve the company's application . to raise fares, with only 'minor modifications.
The Commissioners, he said did net like the company's decision to haveiWo fare standards, one for non-paying services and a lower scale for profitable routes. Neither did they agree that dividends of 11 per cent, were precisely right, nor that such returns represented a "Plimsoll line" below Which they should 'notfall. •. • If the company found it necessary to apply to increase fares again, Mr. Williamson advised, the opportunity should be taken to put charges on a rational basis. .The present application created many anomalies: • The hearing was reported in The .CoMmercial.Motor last week.