Surrey Councils and London Coach Services.
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AT a meeting of the highways com mittee of Southall Urban District Council, the clerk read a letter from Dorking Council stating that the Traffic Commissioners had granted the application of Green Line Coaches, Ltd., to operate coaches between Dorking and London and not between Leatherhead and Dorking. In regard to the appeal to the Ministry of Transport, Dorking Council asked Southall Council to support it in respect of the intention of the Metropolitan Commjssioneri that coach services are not to be allowed to reach the centre of London as in the past. The Southall Highways Committee recommends the council to support theY Dorking authority.
Plans for a, New Tees-side Service.
ESTON URBAN DISTRICT COUN CIL has been asked to indicate its attitude to a proposed application by the Tees-side Railless Traction Board to the Northern Commissioners to license ,a summer service of buses between South Bank and Redcar, Eaton Council has approved of the suggestion, and presumably will agree to provide its proportion of cost of at least two additional petrol buses whigh will be required for this service, if sanctioned by the Commissioners.
The Bradford-Wakefield Appeal Heard.
THE appeal by J. Bullock and Sons, Ltd., Featherstone, against the Yorkshire Commissioners' refusal of a licence for a stage service between Bradford and Wakefield was heard in Leeds a few days ago. Objection was lodged by the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., the L.N.E. Railway Co. and Bradford Corporation, the appellant's case being one against railway monopoly.
Delay with Glasgow's New Fares.
THE transport committee of Glas gow Corporation has decided, in regard to the proposed new fares on the buses and the subsequent application to the Traffic Commissioners for their consent thereto, to protest against the procedure adopted in dealing with the applicationand the consequent delay in putting the altered fares into operation.
• Cumberland Appeal Wins.
THE decision of the Minister of
Transport in the matter of the appeal by Mr. W. Alderson, of Dearborn, against the curtailment by the Commissioners of his service between Dearborn and. Maryport has been announced, and is in favour of the appel
lant. At the original hearing last November, objection was made by Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd.
The Position at York.
WITH regard to rumours that have circulated in the past week or two concerning the position of York Corporation passenger undertaking, an official statement is now available to settle matters of doubt. Following a meeting between a sub-committee of the local authority and representatives of the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., in London, and the meeting of the corporation in committee on March 7th, the town clerk issued the following statement:— "The council in committee decided that before further steps are taken certain reports on the finances and position of the undertaking be presented."
New Great Western Express Arrangements.
IT is announced that the Great Western Express Co., Ltd., London, has taken over the agency and charting control for Solent Coaches, Ltd., Portsmouth, which it will handle from its offices at 16, Eceleston Street, London, S.W.1. The offices are open every day from 8.30 a.m. to midnight. The Great Western concern has taken a new garage at 40, Palfrey Place, Clapham, London, S.W.9. Mr. Vane Morland's Statement at Leeds.
MR. W. VANE MORLAND, who has recently come to Leeds from Walsall, as general manager of the city transport, has made public his plans for the future of the city's system. He said that the wholesale scrapping of the trams which had occurred in many places would not happen at Leeds. The, tram routes operating along wide roads to popular suburban towns would be retained, but a number of the connecting routes would not be reconstructed as tramways. An advantage of trams for heavy traffic routes, Mr. Morland said lay in their being able to run during dense fogs, an opinion which. is not universally held to-day.
East Midland Licence Position.
THE Traffic Commissioners of the East Midland Area desire to inform operators, police authorities and local authorities that they have now issued all the primary road service licences for services operating in, or originating in, their area. The issue of backings will be completed as and when the reterences to the primary licences are received from other Traffic Areas which are concerned.
G.E. (Motor Tours), Ltd.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made whereby Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., will take over the LondonEastbourne and the London-BrightonWorthing coach services of G.B. (Motor Tours), Ltd., the Southdown concern having applied to the South-Eastern Commissioners for licences to be issued in its own name which have been announced as granted to G.B. (Motor Tours), Ltd., but have not yet been issued. No vehicles are being banded over, and G.B. (Motor Tours), Ltd., will retain and concentrate upon its sightseeing business, which is favourably licensed. Its Margate-Hastings service also is retained.
Regional Fares Committees.
MEETINGS of two Regional Fares Sub-committees have been arranged for this week. No. 2 Sub-committee (covering the area between the LondonEastbourne and London-Portsmouth routes) meets to-day at 2.15 p.m. at Committee Room D, Central Hall, Westminster, London, S.W.1. No. 3 Subcommittee (covering the area between the London-Bath-Bristol route and the London Maidenhead Guildford-Portsmouth route) will meet on March 17th at 11.15 a.m. at the same place.