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AJOINT application by Ribble Motor • Services, Ltd., W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., and Scout Motor Services, Ltd., for increased duplication on Keswick-London services during the Coronation period next year was granted by the Northern Licensing Authority last week.
At present, 25 daily trips are authorized. Permission has now been given for an extra 21 runs during May, June and July. The Railway Executive objected to the application.
Mr. F. Briggs, general manager of the Standerwick company, put in a fares schedule which showed the rail journey to •be 80 per cent_ dearer than the road service, but Mr. F. J. McHugh, for the Executive, pointed out that the rail journey took nearly eight hours, whereas the coach trip occupied 14 hours.
Mr. E. C. Sibbald, of the railway district commercial manager's office, Barrow-in-Furness, said that faster and probably more frequent trains to the south were being planned for next summer, with, perhaps, excursions at half-charge.
The Authority said that the Coronation was a special event and nothing should be put in the way of the public enjoying it. Extra traffic should go to the regular operators, for if they were not given permission, people would band together and obtain contract carriages.
P.S.V. OILERS OUTNUMBER GOODS
THE number of oil-engined passenger vehicles in Britain was 55,692 in September, 1951, and that of goods and other vehicles 43,023. This information is contained in "Basic Road Statistics, Great Britain, 1952," published at is. by the British Road Federation, 4a, Bloomsbury Square, London, W.C.1.
• A table devoted to public service vehicle operation, excluding London Transport services, shows that 4,471.7m. passengers were carried on stage services in 1950-51 and that the total revenue was £39m. The book also akveals that the number of motor vehicles per mile of road in this country is higher than in any other civilized country. The appropriate figure is 18.1: that of the U.S.A. is 17.1, and that of Belgium, 16.5.
PEAS IN TANKERS
QHELLED peas were among the 13 commodities being carried in the company's tankers, said Mr. H. H. Crow at the 32nd anniversary dinner of the Crow Carrying Co, Ltd., last Saturday.
Mr. L. A. May, of Golden Block, ,Ltd., described the Crow company's -growth and said that the fleet now comprised 112 tankers, with containers of 17 types. He had special praise for the drivers.
Last year 85 ner cent, of the men qualified for safe-driving awards, which were presented by Mr. H. Norman Letts. He remarked that it would soon be the thing to say, "Safe as a Crow driver."
R.H.E. GROUP MERGER THE Boston and East Lincs Groups of the Road Haulage Executive have been merged and are now working under the name of the Boston Group at London Road, Wyberton. The group now covers Skegness, Spilsby, Horncastle, Swineshead, Boston and Sleaford and almost reaches to Newark.
The fleet strength is 190 vehicles and four acres of land were purchased at London Road to accommodate the vehicles from the East Lines garage, which is now a sub-depot.
A new depot in London Road, Coventry, has been opened to relieve congestion caused by vehicles parking near the Quinton Road depot. The work of the Whitefriars Street depot has been transferred to Quinton Road.
B.M.M.O. TOURS FOR 1953
F1FTEEN tours varying in duration from 7-13 days and eight from 4-8 days are to be operated next year by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.
One tour, lasting five days, is to Galloway and Belfast and costs £15. The longest tour, costing £37 10s., is to Loch Aid, Argyll and Kintyre. The shorter tours are to be run in the spring, at Easter and in the autumn. Destinations include Bournemouth, the Isle of Wight, Devon and the Perthshite Highlands.
AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSIONS
APAPER entitled "Automatic Transmissions in America" will be presented by Mr. Charles A. Chayne, B.Sc., M.S.A.E., vice president of General Motors Corporation, at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on November 4, at 5.30 p.m.