BLACKPOOL BUS STATION COMPANY FORMED.
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ACOMPANY with the title of Blackpool •Omnibus Stations, Ltd., was registered last week. The company has a nominal capital of 250,000 in 21 shares, and the first directors are three well-known men in passenger-transport circles, namely, Mr. W. S. Wreathe11 (chairman of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.), Mr. J. S. Wills (a director of numerous passenger-transport concerns), and Major H. E. Hickmott (managing dicector of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.).
The objects of. the company include the acquisition or construction and maintenance of bus stations, garages, parking places, etc., for all types of vehicle, and other forms of transport by land, water or air.
We understand from Mr, 'Wreathall that a site, known as the Coliseum, has been purchased at Blackpool for a bus station.
60 MILES BY BUS TO WORK..
AESTEG (Glam.) miners who IVItravel 60 miles daily by bus to and from work were complimented by the chairman of the South Wales Commissioners, Mr. A. T. James, K.C., on their whilst the comparable returns for the arolleybuses are 232,968 and 221,083.
During the year the petrol buses covered an aggregate mileage of 1,605,271 and carried 8,223,213 passengers. In the case of the trolleybuses the total mileage was 588,536, and the number of passengers carried 5,552,016.
At the-end of the financial year the corporation owned a total of 78 passenger vehicles.
EXCURSION AND TOUR BUSINESS DECLINING?
WHEN a Torquay operator applied to the Western Traffic Commissioners for permission to run an increased number of excursions, Mr. A. F. Nicholson, the chairman, remarked that he understood that the excursion and tour business was declining.
The application was opposed by the Devon General Omnibus and Tour Co., Ltd., on behalf of which it was stated that the number of vehicles in the ex
TIME NOT RIPE FOR comiitETE BUS NETWORK. AN application by the Tynernoutla and District Transport Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd.), to operate a through bus service from Stanley (Co. Durham) to Whitley Bay (Northumberland), a distance of about 26 miles, has been rejected by the Northern Traffic Commissioners.
It was proposed to run the service via Durham, Beamish, Lamesley and Low Fell. Sir John Maxwell, chairMarl of the Northern Commissioners, said that the application was the first to provide a through daily stage service from places west of the North Road to points north of the Tyne.
The time had not arrived ,however. when it was possible to inter-link every community by a through service. While it must be admitted that such a service would benefit a certain section zeal. The Commissioners were consider lug an application of Messrs. Lily Selsdon, Maesteg, to run a workman's bus service from Maesteg to Banwen, a distance of 30 miles each way.
For the applicant it was contended that as the colliers had to pay 10s. per week for conveyance, they required transport on Sundays to make it worth while. They would receive more wages if they made the journey on Sundays.
The application was adjourned to give Mr. Reginald Greenslade, who objected, an opportunity of providing bigger buses, which, it was suggested, would 'Meet the case.
CHESTERFIELD'S SYSTEM EARNS GOOD PROFIT.
CHESTERFIELD Corporation made a gross profit on both its motorbus and trolleybus sections during the year ended March 31, 1934. That on the motorbuses amounted to 211,399, equivalent to 1.7d. per bus mile, whilst that nn the trolleybuses was 211,885', equivalent to 4.84d. per bus mile. The total revenue from the operation of the motorbuses was 273,739, and working expenses amounted to 262,240,
cursion and tour fleet had been reduced from 70 to 38. The application was refused.
By way of contrast, we understand from Mr. Gerald Nowell, managing director of the General Travel Agency (London), Ltd., and a director of Red and White Services, Ltd., that their tours businesses have much improved this year. They cover the greater part of Britain. of the public, it could not be regarded as being in itself a sufficient ground for the institution of the service as a whole..
CHESTER AND OILERS.
TEIE transport committee of Chester Corporation has instructed the general manager to continue his tests of oil-engined buses, and for that purpose to hire for a further period the Foden bus, as well as a Crossley and an A.E.C. oiler.
NEW HEADQUARTERS FOR EASTERN CONCERN.
are informed that MuItiways, Ltd., has acquired commodious promises at 35, London Road, Southend• on-Sea, where there are waiting rooms, booking offices and general offices, in addition to a large garage for the company's fleet of coaches and a public garage for 60-70 vehicles.
Multiways, Ltd., operates an attractive series of tours to Devon and Cornwall, North Wales, the Lake District and Scotland, as well as day trips and three-day tours to Bournemouth, Hastings, etc.