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WHEN Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., YY applied last week to the Scottish Licensing Authority to operate its Manchester-Glasgow night service all the year, a representative of the Railway Executive admitted that if Ribble had been wholly owned by the British Transport Commission, there was a possibility that "the thing could have been resolved elsewhere." The B.T.C. holds .49 per cent, of the shares in the Ribble concern.
The Authority commented that the slight distinction of 2 per cent. made all the difference between objection or none. " I think," he said, "that this ought to be conveyed to the Railway Executive to consider the position."
Mr. W. Blackhurst. for Ribble, said that his client and the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd.. operated a service between Manchester and Glasgow, and that although ,the railways had . always contended that their services were adequate, they had never "lifted a finger" when the two road operators had applied to the North-western Licensing Authority to remove restrictions upon duplication. Decision was reserved.
Earlier, Ribble had applied to run a night service between Edinburgh and Liverpool during the summer. The service would be run jointly with Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., which had a similar application down for hearing in Edinburgh. There were no objectors. The Authority said that the principle of the service was granted, but consideration of duplication would be deferred, SHORTAGE CAUSES IDLE RUNNING
BECA USE a shortage of raw material had forced the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., Rogerstone, to work a fiveday week, and there was no workmen's traffic at week-ends, Howell and Withers, Ltd., Ynysddu, applied to the South Wales Licensing Authority for permission to withdraw the service to the factory on Saturdays and Sundays.
The workmen and the company agreed to make an arrangement that the week-end service should be run only when there was a sufficient number of workmen to justify running a bus, and on this understanding the application was adjourned.
KINGSWAY TUNNEL TO BE OUT OF USE
THE Kingsway tunnel will be disused after to-morrow night, when the seventh stage of London Transport's tram-conversion programme comes into effect. Trams will disappear from North London, Brixton, Brockley, Forest Hill and Norwood, and three new bus services will be inaugurated.
Fifty-two trams will be abandoned Lid 62 buses introduced, bringing the total of trams withdrawn to 575 and The aggregate number of new buses to 654. The new buses will be based at Holloway, Rye Lane and Stockwell garages.
c.2 • BARTON'S LICENCE REVOKED BY MINISTER
THE Minister of Transport has revoked a licence granted to Barton Transport, Ltd., Chilwell, Notts, by the East Midland , Authority to run a Melton Mowbray-Llandudno service. The company appealed against the Authority's decision because a number of picking-up points asked for and unlimited duplication had been refused, and the Railway Executive appealed because it cohsidered that rail facilities were adequate.
Mr. J. N. Valiance, for the R.E., said that the Executive had never claimed that the public must travel by rail. , Facilities were provided and the public could use them if it wished, but an abstraction of traffic on the route concerned to the extent of up to 70 passengers a day might prove disastrous. Long-distance travel of this kind ought to be left to the railways.
For Barton Transport, Ltd., Mr. L. A. W. White contended that the traffic carried by the service would largely be new and that it was not likely that the railways would suffer heavily_ Mr. I. W Nelson, the Ministry inspector, considered that there was insufficient evidence of need for the service.
NEW IGNITION CABLE
AN ign'tion cable which is claimed to provide the maximum effective operational life with a minimum risk of dielectric breakdown has been produced by Ward and Goldstone, Ltd., Pendleton, Manchester, 6, and it is already in use as standard equ:pment by leading motor manufacturers. The inner core is of special material reslstant to breakdown, 'and the outer sheath is of polyvynyl chlor'cle,
The company produces this cable in a range of various colours.