Bradford and E.EM.S. Want Higher Fares
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TWO Yorkshire bus undertakings announced this week their intention
to apply for higher fares. Bradford Transport Committee, who face an estimated deficit of £42,500 at the end of the present financial year, hope that their recommendations will yield an extra £80,000 a year. The recent wage awards to staff will cost the undertaking about £55,200 in a full year.
Mr. J. S. Wills, chairman of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., said on Wednesday that an application for higher fares would shortly be submitted: The pay award was estimated to cost them 1:40,000 a year.
During the past year, E.Y.M.S. had set up records in the numbers of miles run and passengers carried.
Liverpool Passenger Transport Committee, who face an accumulated deficit of £326,000 in March, 1957, agreed on Tuesday to hold a special meeting on. January 10 to decide whether to increase fares.
[The names of other .undertakings considering fare increases are reported on page 607.1 •
A.C.V. OUTPUT REDUCED BY DIFFICULTIES SSLOW delivery of materials and a lack of skilled labour reduced the output of Associated Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., in the year ended September 30 last, Mr. Donald G. Muir, secretary, announced on Wednesday. Nevertheless,. the turnover of the chassis division was higher than in 1954, and on September 30 last, the total value of unexecuted orders was double that in hand a year earlier. Export sales were well main fa inc d.
Turnover and profits of the body division fell heavily, but conditions are expected to improve during the forthcoming year.
The group made a profit last year of £655,559 after meeting all charges, including taxation of £562.295. A dividend of III. per cent, is being paid.
BUSES IN MERSEY TUNNEL? THE operation of all-night buses through the Mersey Tunnel was approved in principle on Tuesday by the Tunnel Joint Committee. There would be no bus service during the day. Liverpool and Birkenhead municipal authorities are likely to agree. Efforts have been made for 21 years to secure a night bus service through the tunnel to replace the hourly night ferry.
END B.R.S., TRADERS SAY
QN Tuesday, Croydon Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution calling for the sale of all sections of British Road Services "as being likely to create more competition and enterprise in road haulage, giving customers greater freedom of choice and better service." The Government's proposal to halt denationalization was deplored.