RECENT HAPPENINGS IN THE, TRAFFIC AREAS M.H.C.SA. Deputation to Minister To-morrow.
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WITH regard to the statement made on page 635 of our issue for last week that the Minister of Transport was arranging to receive a deputation from the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., to discuss points arising out of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, this deputation will attend at the Ministry to-morrow at 11.30 a.m. The M.H.C.S.A. will represent the views of independent operators throughout the country.
Decisions Concerning Cook's Tours.
THE latest gazette published by the Metropolitan Commissioner announces decisions on a number of excursion applications made by Thomas Cook *id Son, Ltd., London. The policy of the Commissioner has been to 'refuse to permit the operation of coaches from various points in the central area of London and to dismiss 842 applications concerning them, including the same applications in a group of excursions starting from Berkeley Street.
It is anticipated that this will have an adverse effect on the number of visitors coming to Britain each year.
Middlesbrough's Circular Route Licensed.
LAST week at Middlesbrough the Northern Commissioners granted permission to Middlesbrough Corporation to run a bus service from the Tees Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough, via Stockton, Norton and Billingham, across the Transporter Bridge and back.
Stockton Bus Protection Granted.
AT Stockton last Tuesday the Northern Commissioners consented to the corporations of Stockton and Middlesbrough substituting buses for trams after December 31st on the route from Norton to North Ormsby. Protective fares were permitted. Leicester Corporation's External Services.
AT the public inquiry, held at Notting ham by the East Midland Traffic Commissioners recently, when application was made by Leicester Corporation for consent to operate bus services on two routes outside the city, additional protection was asked for the municipal service for a distance of 440 yds. from the outer terminal.
The applications were made to permit the corporation services to cater for housing estates, and there was opposition from the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., which is itself making application to operate,services in Leicester.
The Commissioners intimated that they would not be prepared to grant the protection requested, even intimating that there might be ground for bus companies to ask for protection against municipal services outside the municipal area. Northern Ireland Fares Application. PERMISSION to issue special daily excursion tickets at a minimum rate of 0.23d. per• mile to passengers travelling a distance of 20 miles or over was sought by H. M. S: Cathersvood, Ltd., at a meeting of the Northern Ireland Road Transport Fares Tribunal in Belfast a few days eiga. The applicants also asked for permission to vary from time to time the amount to be charged, provided that it would not be less than the minimum fixed. It was contended that they should be placed on terms to compete with the railway companies. For the railway companies it was stated that if the application were granted it would enable Messrs. Catherwood to put into operation a fare which would compete with the railway companies in connection with bulk traffic. The tribunal had laid down the principles on which fares were to be fixed and now it was being asked to depart from one of the established principles and to say that an uneconomic fare should be fixed.
• The application was turned down on the ground that the applicant had not
established a case. The tribunal reserved the right to permit in any individual ease fares below an operator's economic average.
Municipal Intervention in the North. ANOTHER municipal authority has decided to approach the Traffic Commissioners concerning a disallowed service. Newbiggin Council a few days ago unanimously decided to make a representation to the Northern Commissioners in respect of the application made by Messrs. G. Morton and Son for a licence to operate between Newbiggin and Ashington, urging that the case be reconsidered. The grounds of the authority's representation are that the service is desirable in the public interest, and that existing facilities on this route are inadequate.