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Last-minute Offers Fail at Brighton

15th May 1936, Page 62
15th May 1936
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Page 62, 15th May 1936 — Last-minute Offers Fail at Brighton
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L./ LEVENTH-HOUR attempts to settle the differences between Brighton Corporation and Thos. Tilling, Ltd., and Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., were revealed when the Brighton Corporation Bill, 1936, was considered for the first time, last week, by a Select Committee of the House of Lords. Among other things, the Bill seeks power to replace and extend the tramways by a trolleybus system. The two companies mentioned and others opposed the Bill.

It was stated that the corporation offered to pay the companies 20 per coat. of the gross revenue from operation on certain routes already served by them, In declining the offer, the companies proposed to run suitable services on the routes in question, when the trams were abandoned, and to pay the municipality a Certain proportion of the takings. This suggestion was rejected.

A report by two independent experts, Mr. A. C. Baker, of Birmingham, and Mr. C. Owen Silvers, of Wolverhampton, was made known for the first time. The experts expressed the belief that the proposals contained in the Bill were sound, but that the ideal plan for the district would be unified control of transport. The annual profit was estimated at £51,422.

In evidence, Mr. Silvers estimated that, if they accepted the corporation's offer, the Tilling and Southdown companies would receive respectively £3,000 and £2,000 a year. Counsel for "Southdown," who opened the case for the opposition, made a firm proposal to the municipality for the payment of 20 per cent, of the gross receipts from its buses operating along the existing tramways, if these were abandoned. The Tilling concern was willing to make a similar contribution.


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