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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. 22):
Town Hall, Kirkcaldy, October 6th and tel lowing days, 10 a.m. City Chambers, Dunfermline, October 13th14th, 10 a.m.
Southern Scotland (Gazette No. 22):
Municipal Bdgs., Oban, Sept. 22nd, 11 a.m. 1, Grosvenor Crescent. Edinburgh, September 25th, 10.30 a.m. Public Library, Hamilton, September 29th30th, 10.30 a.m. Municipal Bags., Stirling, Oct. 1st, 11 a.m.
Northern (Gazette No. 12):
Town Hall, Bishop Auckland, September 22nd, 10.30 a.m. Town Hall, Whitehaven, September 24th, 10.30 a.m.
Police Court, Keswick, September 25th, 10.30 a.m.
Moot Hall, Newcastle, September 28th, 10.30 sin.
Yorkshire (Gazette NO. 22)1
Town Hall, Leeds, September 29th-October 2nd, 10 a.m.
North.Western (Gazette No. 22):
!Municipal Buildings, Dale Street, Liverpool, September 22nd-23rd, 10.30 a.m. Town Hall, Blackpool, September 28th-30th, 10.30 a.m.
West Midland (Gazette No. 25):
Town Hall, Hanley. September 23rd-24th, 10.30 a.m.
East Midland (Gazette No. 27):
Session House, Lincoln, September 28thOctober 2nd, 11 a.m.
Guildhall, Nottingham, October 6th-8th. Council Chamber, Bedford, October 12th. 14th.
Guildhall, Nottingham. October 15th-16th. Council Chamber, Peterborough, October 19th-21st.
Guildhall, Nottingham, October 22nd-23rd. Council Chamber, Skegness, October 26th2.8th.
Guildhall, Nottingham, October 29th-30th, November 3rd-5th.
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Crown Court, Leicester, November 9th-13th. County Court, Northampton, November 16th18th..
Guildhall, Nottingham, November 19th-20th. Council Chamber, Cleethorpes, November 23rd-25th.
Guildhall. Nottingham, November 26th-27th. Crown Court. Leicester, November 30th. December 2nd.
Guildhall. Nuttinghano, December 3rd-4th, 8ttFllth.
Sessions House, Lincoln, December 14th16th.
Guildhall, Nottingham, December 17th-18th. Eastern (Gazette No. 23): County Hall, Cambridge, September 29th and (chewing days, 10.30 a.m.
South Walesk(Gazette No. 22):
Shire Hall, Brecon, September 22nd-23rd, 11 a.m.
County Buildings, Llandrindod Wells, September 24th-26th, 10.30 a.m.
Town Hall, Carmarthen, September 28th30th, 10.30.
Western (Gazette No. 21):
Council House, Bristol, September 24th05th, 10.30 a.m. Teen Hall, Swindon, September 28th, 2 p.m. (Public inquiry with Southern Commissioners regarding Swindon Town Guildhall, Exeter, October 1st-2nd, 10.30
a.m.
Shire Hall, Taunton. October 7th, 10.30 a.m.
Torquay, October 14th; Plymouth, October 15th; Truro, October 16th. The Castle, Barnstaple, October 18th, 10.30 a.m.
Southern (Gazette No. 26):
Town Hall, Swindon, September 28th, 2 p.m. (Public inquiry with Western Commissioners regarding Swindon Town Colima).
Town Hall, Swindon. September 29th and following days, 10 a.m.
Winchester October 13th; Southampton, October '27th; Zortsmouth, November 11th.
South-Eastern (Gazette No. 27):
Middlesex Guildhall, Westminster, S.W.1, September 22nd-25th, 11 a.m. County Hall, Lewes, September 28th-October 2nd, 11 a.m. Middlesex Guildhall, Westminster, S.W.1, October 6th-9th, 13th-16th.
Metropolitan (Gazette No. 27):
Gaywood House, Woad Street, London. S.W.1, September 21st-25th, 28th-October • 2n4, 10 a.m. •
At last some sittings are announced for the Yorkshire Area Commissioners. They will meet at Leeds on September 29th, when a big number of applications for excursions and tours will be made by large and small operators. These will be objected to, practically without exception, by the L.M.S. and L.N.E. railway companies, which can therefore have made little or no discrimination as to the routes to be followed or the kind of service which the road operators are offering to the public in respect of travel which is intended mainly, for sight-seeing and pleasure. There is hardly an application on the list which does not involve a host of objections. .
The West Midlands Commissioners still appear to be receiving large
numbers of licence applications. Tomorrow's public sitting at Hanley will be largely occupied with applications from Crosville Motor. Services; Ltd., in respect of stage-carriage routes (not objected to) and some express-carriage routes. Of the • latter those between Birmingham and Blackpool and Newcastle (Staffs) and Blackpool are objected to by. the L.M.S. Railway Co. Considerable opposition is to be met by the Potteries Electric Traction Co., Ltd.,
excursion applications of this concern being objected to by the railway interests.
As regards the East Midland Area 62 pages of Gazette No. 27 are devoted to fresh applications. Objections by the railway interests to excursions and tours will be a prominent feature at the Lincoln sitting, for it appears that the L.N.E.R. Co. has entered objections to practically every application in respect of excursions or tours which involves routes in the region served by the railway. The Commissioners must realize the wholesale nature of these objectiOns and the weak grOunds upon which they are founded. Quite a number of stagecarriage routes also is objected to by railway interests.
This gazette announces conditions in respect of Stamford and Bedford, which will be attached to licences and backings. Amongst the decisions announced appear backings granted to the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., in respect of groups of excursions and tours, starting from five places in London.
The Eastern Area Gazette No. 23 again lists a number of fresh •applications. Of the forthcoming sittings that to be held at Cambridge on September 29th will be interesting, because the railway interests will strongly contest a number of express-service applications in respect of routes between Southend-onSea and London, old-established roadservice operators being concerned. This is not the only east-coast express route that will be the subject of cbntention at this sitting, and, besides this, applications for a number of excursions and tours, are being objected to by the L.N.E.R. Co. A few decisions are announced in this gazette.
Gazette No. 21 of the Western Area indicates that at the next sitting, commencing on October 1st, Shamrock and Rambler Motor Coaches, Ltd., of Bournemouth, will come up against the Great Western Railway Co. when its applications for express services in the south and between south-coast towns and London will be due for hearing. At the same sitting quite a large number of applications in respect of excursions is to be objected to by the railway_ corn
panies, despiteqhe fact that the kind of service given by motor coaches for this class of work bears little resemblance to that afforded by the railways. Similar instances will arise at the Barnstaple sitting. A few decisions are announced in this gazette.
At Swindon next Monday the Western and Southern Commissioners jointly will hold a public inquiry under Part V of the Road Traffic Act into the application of Swindon Town Council for permission to operate public-service vehicles 'on routes outside the municipal boundaries.
Gazette No. 26 for the Southern Area lists a batch of fresh applications. At the Swindon sitting the London-Westonape-Mare express services of Greyhound• Motors, Ltd., will be objected to by Green Line Coaches, Ltd., whilst the Bristol-Bournemouth service of this company will be opposed by the L.M.S. Railway Co. The Thames Valley Traction Co., Ltd., is to object to several excursions and tours applied for by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd. There will be the usual railway objections to Manchester-London and simflar services. An interesting case will be the objection by the Great Western Elpress Co., Ltd., to the Cheltenham-London application of Black and White Motorways, Ltd. Both are well-known operators. Excursions and tours are the main concern of the South-Eastern Commissioners at the sitting which opens this morning, and the Southern Railway Co. is objecting to most of the applications, as well as to nearly all the stagecarriage and express-carriage applications which are listed for consideration this week. This, of course, does not apply to such instances as those of the Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd., or the Southern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., so that it appears from a glance through the latest gazette that the company's objection is not so much to road services as to any form of competition which will injure it financially. Road services which involve loss of traffic to the railway are objected to as unnecessary, whilst those that will bring revenue to the railway are treated as being beneficial to the public interest.
Gazette No. 27 of the Metropolitan Area is not quite so bulky as previous issues. Mr. A. T. Moseley'sexpressservice applications for routes between London and the coast, not to mention those of a number of small operators, will meet severe opposition from the railway interests when they come up for hearing next week. In most cases, however, the arguments raised will probably be in keeping with those used in the. past. Only one or two decisions are announced.