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Works Buses Do Not Abstract Traffic WORKMEN'S buses • operating
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from TV. Reading should start at a central picking-up point in the -town, Reading Corporation .claimed. last week. They told the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners that Smith's Luxury Coaches (Reading), Ltd., were abstracting traffic by picking up passengers all round the• borough.
The corporation objected to the renewal of Smith's express licence for
workmen's services. Mr. E. Chapman-.
Porter, deputy town. clerk, said that if 70 Smith's buses left the town every day,
each carrying 40 passengers, 14,000 people a 'week were transported.. These passengers should use corporation buses ' to reach a central point.
Mr. A. "G. • Goodeve-Docker, • for Smith's, asked where. the corporation could make thorn for 70 buses. in the town centre, and how they ,would -cope with the traffic on their own vehicles.
Employers entering into contract were assured that a coach would be assigned to their employees and Would deliver the men at work on time. Smith's were not taking away corporation traffic; the traffic was created and Smith's applied to carry it.
Granting the renewal, Mr. H. I. Thom, chairman, said unless employers received good bus services, they would not be able to attract workers.
The corporation also objected to an
application by. Smith's for two new licences to embody all their excursions
and tours. The corporation wanted all picking-up points in the borough to be abolished, because their traffic was being, abstracted. For Smith's .Mr. Goodeve-: Docker said the public had enjoyed, the facilities for 28 years.
This application was also granted. Mr. Thom said although he had every sympathy with the corporation, it was impossible to take away from the public. an amenity they had enjoyed for so long..
When the Thames Valley Traction Co., Ltd., applied to me-ge their existing
Reading-Newbury and Reading-Maidenhead services into one through service, the corporation claimed that by running from east to west traffic would be taken from corporation routes.
By agreement, a fare table to protect the corporation was devised. The Commissioners agreed and the application was granted NEW AIRCRAFT TRACTOR
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It.. is basically a --standard •• Turbo Taskmaster with -twirl, rear. Wheels" and a more powerful engine, a .40 b.h.p." unit mated to' a gearbox proViding six forward and two reverse ratios. Power-assisted steering is standard. r