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ABERDONIANS TO PAY MORE FOR THEIR RIDES?
A BOLITION of the penny fare by f't increasing the minimum charge to Id. and a rise in the present lid. fare to 2d. has been recommended by Aberdeen Corporation transport -committee. Child's present -id. and ld. fares, to cover the new lid. and 2d. stages, will be continued, and there will be no increase on the higher fares.
It is also proposed that the transport department's parcel delivery charges be increased from 2d. to 3d. for 7 lb., and from 3d. to 4d. for 14 lb. New fares and parcel charges, for which approval has to be obtained, will come into operation on November 1, if upheld.
Councillor Collins, convener, told the transport committee that in the estimates for 194748 it had been calculated that if the present fares were maintained there would be a loss on the tramcar service of £38,506 and on the bus service of £18,806. "That is due to the increased cost of operation —increased wages, improved conditions for employees, and increased cost of materials," he said.
"The department is faced with heavy capital expenditure on new vehicles, tramcar and bus accommodation, and plant to serve the needs of new housing areas. This will mean a substantial increase annually on interest and sinking fund charges."
OVERSEAS LEYLAND HAS SPLENDID RECORD
ALEYLAND coach which was recently built for Henri Petit, of Brussels, has been touring continually on the Continent from June 20 until August, returning to its base in Brussels only three times, when routine servicing was carried out during the night ready for a fresh, start the following morning.
Some of the tours have been undertaken for Messrs. Fourways Travel A26 Agency, of London, and have included Switzerland, Italy and Spain. Laden with 28 passengers and a large amount of luggage, this Leyland coach has covered about 300 miles a day and has climbed with ease some of the most difficult passes in Europe in a heatwave with temperatures varying between 104 degrees and 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
The 100 b.h.p. Leyland oil engine also attracted admiration from owners of other coaches for its low fuel consumption. In the mountainous areas, the consumption averaged m.p.g., whilst 14 to 15 m.p.g. was obtained in the comparatively level districts.
HOW TIME TABLES ARE MADE A LL passenger-transport executives, -1 as well as students of the industry, will find interest in "Time Table and Duty Schedule Compilation," by J. F. Turner, A.M.Inst.T., which is published by Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., Pitman House, Parker Street, Kingsway, London, W.C.2, at 10s. 6d.
This clearly written volume attempts to lay bare the basic principles of compilation and by means of example and hypothesis to demonstrate the effect of applying them in appropriate circumstances.
The author has lectured on this subject at the City of London College and the North-Western Polytechnic, London.
PRIVATE BUS WORKERS' "EQUALITY"
THE award of the Tribunal set up after the three weeks' strike of bus workers in the North, gives the workers most of the conditions operating in municipal undertakings. Sunday overtime is not granted. The dispute was principally on a demand for conditions equal to those of municipal workers.
SUNDERLAND'S 12.8 PER CENT.
TRAFFIC INCREASE .
THE annual report of Mr. C. A. Hopkins, general manager of Sunderland Corporation transport undertaking, stated that the number of passengers carried on the trams and buses at 86,443,489 exceeded that of the previous year by 12.8 per cent.
On the buses working expenses were £157,635 and revenue £188,071 and the net balance amounted to £30,420.
The buses carried over 33,300,000 passengers and the average traffic revenue per vehicle mile was 19.019d. Average working expenses were 16.243d. per mile.
BRADFORD FARES RISE DESPITE OBJECTIONS
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posals for increases in fares on itg bus, trolleybus and tramcar services, on the ground of increases in costs, have received Ministry of Transport sanction, notwithstanding the objections which Brighouse Corporation and Shipley Urban District Council put forward against proposals concerning their areas. The undertaking's benefit from the extra revenue will be considerably reduced, however, by the increase in expenditure since the applications were made over a year ago.
The proposals now sanctioned provide for the increasing of penny fares to 1 fel., 24d. fares to 3d., longerdistance 3d, fares to 4d., 31d. fares to 4d., and 4d. and 41d. fares to 5d.
NEWCASTLE BUS STRIKE AVOIDED
A STRIKE at Newcastle-on-Tyne in. Corporation's transport undertaking, as a result of the refusal of a 41-year-old conductor to join the Transport and General Workers' Union, has been avoided by the man's last-minute decision to join the union. He had been told by the transport and electricity committee that if he did not join the union he would be dismissed. The committee controls about 250 vehicles and employs about 3,000 hands,
ANOTHER RECORD AT WOLVERHAMPTON
',ROSS surplus for the year ended ‘...-11 March 31, 1947, on the Wolverhampton Corporation trolleybuses is £87,387, and on the buses it is £39,217. After debiting interest on capital, repayments and taxation, there is a total balance of £49,772, of which £10,000 has been paid to relief of the rates and £34,400 allocated for deferred vehicle purchase. The remaining £5,392 has been transferred to the reserve fund. The past year has thus again been a record one.
BUS GRAFT IN BUDAPEST?
COMMUNTST police, it is stated, %---have arrested Budapest municipal transport managers after they negotiated with British and Italian manufacturers for the supply of 100 buses.
The Communist transport minister wanted contracts in Paris and the Communist Press, it is reported, accused Social Democrats of trying to Place contracts so as to use the funds for party purposes.