Yorkshire Traction Alleges Irregular Running
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TWENTY-THREE complaints of irregular running by Messrs. W. R. and P. Bingley, Kingsley, Messrs. W. Everett and Son. South Kirkby, and Messrs. L. L. Cooper, South Kirkby: were made by the Yorkshire Traction Co., ltd., to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, last week.
Mr. R. Coutts. traffic and goods manager of the company, said that the three firms were carrying fare paying passengers beyond Hemsworth contrary to a 1950 agreement. The main complaint concerned interference with the company's 5.25 p.m. service from Hemsworth, and it was estimated that 6d. a mile was being lost on the liemsworth-Upton route.
Mrs. P. Bingley, a partner in Messrs. W. R. and P. Bingley, suggested that there had been some irregularity with the 5.25 p.m. bus. Workers leaving a mill at Hemsworth at 5.30 p.m. should be carried by the united service run by the three firms, but a Yorkshire Traction bus took them instead. It was untrue to suggest that a joint service bus ran in front of the 5.25 p.m. bus and so deprived it of 'passengers.
The Licensing Authority reserved his decision.
The Duke of Gloucester (centre) an the Perkins stand at the Smithfield Show, last week. With him ari ue(t) Sir Patrick Hennessy, chairman of the Ford Motor Co.. Ltd., and Capt. A. I. M. Richardson, deputy chairman of F. Perkins, Ltd.. who
received the Royal visitor.
UNJUSTIFIED CRITICISM OF B.R.S., SAYS CHAIRMAN
h/TUCH of the criticism levelled at IVJ British Road Services was unjustified, but this could not be said of all of it, and in most of the cases where B.R.S. was at fault, there had been a failure of the human element.
Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell, chairman of the Road Haulage Executive, makes this observation in a message to the staff in the December issue of" British Road Services Magazine."
"However much credit may be due to each one of us for 'what we have helped to build up in the past 4f years --and we may all be justly proud of what has been achieved—the fact remains that one little piece of inefficiency on the part of one person tends to be given greater publicity in the Press and elsewhere than the results of years of hard work by thousands," he says.
NEW 80-PASSENGER BUS
IT is understood that Les Ateliers 1 Metallurgiques is producing an integral bus for 80 passengers, which will incorporate L,eyland standard units as supplied for the Olympic. It is expected that this bus will be shown at the Brussels Salon next month,
PLYMOUTH BUS STATION
TT is expected that Plymouth's new bus I station will start work next month. It is being laid out on a site between Union Street and Station Road. About 30 municipal and Western National services will use the station.
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MR. M. I. PRICHARD, MR. F. E. BLACKSTONE and MR., C. D. M ACQUAIDE have been invited to become assistant directors of R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd. They are members of the executive staff of the group.
MR. W. BRAMHAM has joined Saunders-Roe (Anglesey), Ltd., as technical sales representative. He was formerly with Charles Roe, Ltd., Eastern Coachworks, Ltd., and lately with Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd. MR. B. R. FRASER, B.Sc., has been appointed assistant manager of the Coryton refinery of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., now nearing completion.
MR. D. M. Sirstcuott, C.B.E., general manager of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., is to be next year's president of the Omnibus Society.
Ma. R. P. BOWYER, formerly traffic superintendent of the Birmingham and Coventry District of the Road Haulage Executive, has been appointed manager of the Bristol depot of A. Packhant and
Co., Ltd. _
MR. E. L. RICHARDSON, Press officer of the Ford Motor Co., has been promoted head of the Press and information department. He will be assisted by MR. A. S. WHEELHOUSE. MR. E. A. Faatus has been appointed head of the administration and publications department.
MR. T. BAMFORD, general manager of Maidstone Transport Department, and MR. L. G. STOCKWELL, general manager of the Stalybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield undertaking, have been short-listed for the general managership of Dundee Transport Department. Also on the short list are MR. W. L. RUSSELL, Midland divisional engineer of the Road Haulage Executive, and MR. JAMES MORE, Scottish , divisional engineer of the RILE.
MR. E. E. KERRY, northern area manager of Kerry's (Great Britain), Ltd., has been appointed Stratford branch manager. MR. W. H. PooLE has become Sheffield branch manager and Ma. D. A. SCOIT Perivale branch manager. The Leicester branch managership has been taken up by MR. E. Timms, whilst that for Middlesbrough is now occupied by Ma. S. W. HINES. Warehouse managerships at Sheffield, Leicester and Cambridge have been assumed by MR. R. M. BINCH. MR. J. C. TIMMINS and MR. R. N. Pool respectively.