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• The name of the director-general for the SEL NEC PTA was expected to be announced yesterday from a short-list of five. The candidates were Mr. A. Burrows, general manager of Liverpool City Transport: Mr. G. A. Harrison, chief executive officer and town clerk in Bolton; Mr. F. J. Lloyd, chief commercial and planning officer for the London Transport Board; Mr. C. N. Tebay, assistant secretary for Public Transport at the Ministry of Transport; and Mr. J. Thomson, the general manager of Manchester City Transport. It is understood that a total of 26 applications was considered.
• Two more London Transport bus routes will be switched from double-deck to o-m-o flat fare singledeck operation on June 14. They are route 128 (Chase Farm Hospital to Lower Edmonton Station) which will be renumbered W8 and 230 (Northwick Park Station to Rayners Lane Station) which will be renumbered H1. The new 25-seat single-deckers will be converted to 32-seaters shortly; meanwhile they will carry 48 standing passengers.
• Changes to London Transport bus services in the Oxford Circus area were introduced on May 25 when new traffic arrangements were introduced. 'Where to board your bus" panels are displayed on each bus stop in the vicinity and are identified by letters mounted on top of the poles.
• Bee-Line Roadways (Teesside) Ltd. has bought the five-coach business of Arrowsmith of Stockton-on-Tees. Mr. Ray Hardwick. for Bee-Line, said the deal had brought his fleet strength up to 57 coaches. Arrowsmith will remain in business as furniture removers and storage contractors.
• Bus operators in the Stanley area of County Durham are opposing a request by the urban council to contnbute towards the cost of a new bus station. They claim that the station would be for the benefit of passengers and not themselves.
• On May 1 the trading name of the Irish agent for Bristol buses and coaches became Cars and Commercials Ltd., Dublin. Managing director is Mr. Matt Ascough, and new orders announced by the company are: PAB Transport, Dublin, 2LHL chassis; Dublin Hire Coaches, 1 LHL; and Irish Tour Facilities Ltd., Dublin, 1 RELH. The new Bristol coaches will all be fitted with Plaxton Panorama Elite 53seat bodies.
• Carlisle bus operators Blair and Palmer Ltd. withdrew as from Tuesday (May 271 services in the Solway Firth rural area to Newton Arlosh and Anthorn via Little Bampton. A reduced service from Kirkbride to Carlisle will be operated for a month on a trial basis. Wigton RDC has asked the company to provide details of income from fares, running costs and passengers carried. The council has been told that "reasonable financial assistance" would be met with a 50 per cent grant from the MoT once the code of guidance for local authority grants was published.
• A new winter brochure has been issued by Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd., under the name of Ensign Tows. A varied selection of touring holidays with departures between October 1969 and March 1970. most of which are completely new, will be available.