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Rural Bus Trial

31st July 1964, Page 23
31st July 1964
Page 23
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ATHREE-MONTH trial of additional and improved bus services in Lincolnshire is to be started—with the Government and Lindsey County Council making good any losses.

Mr. Marples said in the Commons on Wednesday that these experiments had been proposed by the team conducting investigations into the rural transport situation in that county and three others. All the experiments would consist ot additional or improved bus services to be operated by the Lincolnshire Road Car Company subject to the necessary licences being granted by the Traffic Commissioners. They included a new daily return service from villages in the survey area to Louth.

The Minister pointed out that this depended on the county council and his department guaranteeing to make good any small deficit below a specified level of receipts during the three months.

The Lincolnshire team was continuing its studies, including longer-term aspects. continued the Minister, and he hoped the other teams would soon be able to submit interim recommendations. He added:

It will, of course, be necessary to give the experiments a long enough trial to gain experience and assess the results. Only then shall we be able finally to decide our policy."

Record-keeping

THE Ministry of Transport is now engaged on a " careful and detailed" study of how enforcement of record. keeping can be stepped no, announced Lord Chesham, the Parliamentary Secre tary, last week.

He was introducing the Order which allows small C-licensed vans to he used without records and he gave an assurance that this would not be the thin end ol the wedge.

"[he Order, which has already been approved by the Commons, was supported by Lord Stonham on behalf of Labour peers. But he pointed out that in his party's view the great difficulty was the abuse in the much wider field of vehlcles not dealt with in the Order.

Monopolies Action A('[ION on the two outstandin recommendations in the Monopolies Commission report on vehicles elect' ica I equipMent was announced this week In Mr. Edward Heath.

He told M.P.s that the chairman of the British Starter Battery Association (1960 had informed him that from August I that part of the Association's constitution which set up its information service would be cancelled and wouldnot he replaced by any similar agreement.

The second recommendation was that manufacturers or importers should publish prices and terms, including quantity terms for all sales of replacement goods made by them to distributors. Mr. Heath said he had now arranged for his department to undertake a study of the wider implications of this recommendation.


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