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Latest News from the Various Traffic Areas
CO-ORDINATION AMONGST BIG COMPANIES IN. THE NORTH
rnPIE summer programmes of the big operating concerns in the north show au increase in through services as well as improved co-ordination. United Automobile Services, Ltd., York, and Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., Preston, are seeking licences to operate two new cross-country services ; one is between Middlesbrough and Barrow-in-Furness, serving the Lake District (twice daily), and the other is between Liverpool and Newcastle di,rect (once daily).
Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., is also applying to extend its Skipton-Ambleside service to runthrough once daily between Leeds and Keswick, jointly
with the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd. The West Yorkshire and Ribble concerns are also taking over the Merseyside Touring Co.'s once-daily Liverpool-Scarborough service. These two companies are jointly to operate the Ribble Blackpool-Scarborough route. On the other hand, the Ribble company is to participate in the West 'Yorkshire services from the West Riding to Black-pool and Morecambe. The Lancashire 'United Transtiort and Power Co., Ltd., as already announced in this journal, is to join in the two-hourly Liverpool-Newcastle service operated by the North Western Road Car Co.-, Ltd. ; Northern General Transport Co., Ltd.; West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd.; and Yorkshire (W.D.) Electric Tramways, Ltd. These five companies, without the Northern General concern, but with the addition of the East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., are seking sanction to combine tiwee existing services to provide a through service between Hull and Liverpool, their other express services continuing as at present: