STOKE BLAMED FOR DIVIDED CONTROL
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QTOKE ON TRENT Corporation, ii prime mover in the unsuccessful attempt to form a transport hoard in North Staffordshire, was, last week, blamed for the multiplicity of ownership of public service vehicles in the Potteries.
Mr. P. M. Rossdale, chairman of the Potteries Motor Traction Co.; Ltd., speaking at the company's Ordinary general meeting, said that this diversity of operation had been created mainly by the policy of Stoke Corporation prior to 1990, when it was the licensing authority. He added that the company had already availed itself of every opportunity of co-ordinating traffic in the district.
HOW FARES CO-ORDINATION WORKS.
.THE existence of a• standing joint 1 committee, representative of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and the L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railway companies, for the purpose of regulating bus fares and the interavailabiiity • of tickets, was mentioned by Mr. R. A.
Beveridge, commercial manager of the S.M.T., in an address to the convention of the Railway Students Association (University of London), in Edinburgh. Each bus company associated with the S.M.T., he added, lad its own sub-committee.
Mr. W. Whitelaw, chairman of the L.N.E.R. and president of the Association, described the bus and railway companies as " gobd friends," although they sometimes disagreed. He agreed that road services had opened up much new country.
COMMISSIONERS COMMEND CONTINENTAL TOUR.
AFORM of tour added to the list of W. and G. Coachways (Manchester), Ltd., was highly commended by the North-Western Traffic Commissioners at a sitting in Manchester, last week. The special feature is a Continental trip of nine days' duration, in which the party journeys throughout in its own coach from Manchester.
The coach not only travels in the cross-channel steamer to Calais, but also operates fantail excursions from Paris. En route, two nights at Canterbury are included in the itinerary.