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PASSENGER TRANSPORT
THE COMMISSIONERS' FORTHCOMING PUBLIC SITTINGS
Details Extracted from the Gazettes Published by Area Traffic Commissioners During the Week THE following are the times and places announced by Area Traffic Commissioners for their forthcoming public sittings. In each case the number of the latest Gazette of Notices and
Proceedings to be received is mentioned in brackets.
Northern Scotland (Gazette No. 18):
County Buildings, Union Street, Aberdeen, September lit, 10 a.m.
Southern Scotland (Gazette No. 20):
(No public sittings in this area will be held from August 3rd-28th.)
Northern (Gazette No. 10):
Town Ball, Kendall, -4n,gust 17th-leth, 10.30 a.m.
Drill Hall, Southey Street, Keswick, August
19th, 10.30 a.m.
Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands, August 20th, 10.30 a.m.
Town Hall, Newcastle-on-Tyne, August 25th,
10.30 a.m.
Towns Hall, Carlisle, August 26th-27th, 10.30 a.m.
Municipal Buildings, Middlesbrough, Sep tember 17th-18th, 10.30 a.m.
Yorkshire (Gazette No. 16):
(Not, yet to hand.)
North•Western (Gazette No. 15):
Che3ter, September.
West Midland (Gazette No. 20):
Town Hall, Hanley, August 20th-21st, 10.30 a.m.
Birmingham, August 26th-28th.
East Midland (Gazette No. 22):
Guildhall, Nottingham, August 25th-28th, Session Home, Lincoln, September 28th. October 2nd, Guildhall, Nottingham, October 6th-8th.
B36 Council Chamber, Bedford, October 12th14th.
Guildhall, Nottingham, October 1.5th-16th. Council Chamber, Peterborou,gh, October 19th-21st.
Guildhall, Nottingham, October 22nd-23rd. Commit Chamber, Skegness, October 26th28th.
Guihrhall, Nottingham, October 29th-30th, November 3rd-5th.
Crown Court, Leicester, November Sth-13th. County Court, Northampton, November 16th18th.
Guildhall, Nottingham. November 19th-20th, Council Chamber, Cleethorpes, November 23rd-25th.
Guildhall, Nottingham, November 26th-271h. Crown Court, Leicester, November 30thDecember 2nd, Guildhall Nottingham, December 3rd-4th, 8th-11t. Sessions House, Lincoln, December 14th16th.
Guildhall, Nottingham, December 17th-18th.
Eastern (Gazette No. 20):
(No public sittings in this area for at least four weeks after August 110.) South Wales (Gazette No. 18): Shire Hall, Haverfordwest, September 8th9th, September 10th-11th, 11 a.m. Western (Gazette No. 18): No public sittings in this area will be hold during Angust ).
Southern (Gazette No. 21):
Bournemouth, September 15th and following clays; Swindon, September 29th; Wancheater, October 13th; Southampton, October 27th; Portsmouth, November 11th.
South-Eastern (Gazette No. 22):
Gaywood House, Wood Street, London, SW-1, August 17th-22n5. Middlesex, Guildhall, London, &WA, August 24th-28th. (No public sittings in this area will be held from August 29th to September 16th).
Metropoiitan (Gazette No, 22):
Gaywood House, Wood Street, London, S.W.1, AAigust 25th-28th.
When the East Midland Commis-. sioners sit at Nottingham, on August 25th, they will consider.a large number of applications for licences from the Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd.
Gazette No. 22 for this area shows that the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd. and the National Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., are among those that have been granted licences, whilst the Birmingham and Midland Motor. Omnibu% Co., Ltd., received two refusals.
The Commissioners for this area have planned their sittings well in advance, thus enabling operators to make arrangements in good .time for attending, which will be appreciated.
As on previous occasions, when the Metropolitan Traffic Conimissioner next holds a sitting, there should be interesting proceedings, for objection has been lodged to practically every, application for licences, many of which are in respect of services from London to the south coast. The Southern Railway Co. is, of course, well to the fore amongst the objectors, and others include the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., East 1Keiit.Road Car _Co., Ltd., Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd. and; other widely 'known concerns.
;-•Gazette. No 21 of the Traffic Commissioners .for the Southern Area announces the fact that the Hants and Dorset zMotor Services, Ltd., the Southern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., the Western National Omnibus Co., Lt-d., and the National Omnibus and Transport Co., Ltd., are amongst the well-known• concerns that have been granted' licences, chiefly in respect of
stage carriages. •
Additional interest will be lent to the South-Eastern Commissioners' sitting on August 24th, at Middlesex Guildhall, by the announcement of their decisions with regard to the applications of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society, Ltd., for licences for coaches. It may be remembered that, when its applieation came up for consideration, some important points were raised in Opposition. Many applications will be considered at this sitting, licences for services from London to seaside resorts forming the principal subject for consideration. The Commissioners have also granted a large number of licences, as is shown by Gazette No. 22.
The Potteries Electric Traction Co., Ltd., will be a well-known applicant at the Hanley sitting of the West Midland Commissioners, most of the company's applications being in respect of stagecarriage licences. This company has also been granted a large number of licences.
Gazette No. IA) of the Northern • Traffic Commissioners gives details of B37 the services for which Carlisle Corporation, a non-operating municipality, applied for licences, but which, it will be recalled, were not permitted to run. The corporation applied for licences in respect of some (30 routes. The Commissioners for this area have been busy during the past few months, and the latest Gazette shows that a large number of concerns has received licences.
Many applications have, Gazette No.
20 reveals been granted by the Eastern
Traffic reveals, whilst many
more have. been received and have yet to be considered, The Westeliff-on-Sea "Motor .Services, Ltd., has been permitted to run several services from London to Southend-on-Sea.
W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and Glasgow General Omnibus and Motor Services, Ltd., are shown by Gazette No. 20 of the Southern Scotland Commissioners to have been granted licences; the first-named company has been refused an express-carriage service between Paisley and Aberdeen..