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GOODWILL SALEABLE: APPEAL DECISION

4th October 1935, Page 58
4th October 1935
Page 58
Page 58, 4th October 1935 — GOODWILL SALEABLE: APPEAL DECISION
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THE Minister of Transport has given a decision which means, in effect, that it is legal to sell the goodwill of a transport business, witlsout the transfer of premises, vehicles or personnel. He has dismissed appeals by several operators against the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners' decision to transfer excursion licences from Messrs. A. E. Keeling anel Sons, Leeds, to the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., Harrogate.

• At the hearing, it was suggested that as Messrs. Keeling had sold neither vehicles nor premises, the transaction amounted to the " bartering " of licences. It was contended for the respondent, however, that goodwill could he sold apart from vehicles or premises.

POTTERIES FARES DISPUTE.

SSOME time ago, the West Midland Commissioners approved a proposal that bus fares in the Potteries area should be revised on the basis of Id. per mile for single journeys. When the Commissioners held a sitting at Hanley, last week, the town clerk of Stoke-on-Trent stated that the proposed fare-tables submitted by the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., appeared not to comply with the

undertaking given by the operators and accepted by the corporation.

The Commissioners suggested that the operators and, the corporation should confer on the matter. Mr. Lindsay Wood, of the P.M.T., stated that, if the municipality did not agree to the tables which he had submitted he would withdraw them.

B.O.C. SALE CONFIRMED.

SHAREHOLDERS of the Belfast Omnibus Co., Ltd., have confirmed the provisional contract for sale of the assets of the company to the Northern Ireland Transport Board.

LONDON TROLLEYBUS TESTS.

RECENTLY, London Transport has been experimenting with a lowloading trolleybus, with a separate entrance and exit, loaned by Leyland Motors, Ltd. The vehicle was tried, out on the INimbledon-Kingston route.

DEATH OF ALDERMAN MEARS.

THE death occurred, last week-end, of Alderman Joseph T. Mears, of Richmond, Surrey, whose extensive interests included coach operation and a garage business. Aldermln Mears, who was 56 years of age, was Mayor of Richmond in 1932, and is reputed to have left a large fortune.

RIBBLE CO. WINS STATION APPEAL

AT a recent meeting oi Morecambe Corporation, it was reported that the Minister of Health had upheld the appeal by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., regarding the proposed bus station in Euston Road, The corporation refused permission for the establishment of the bus station, because, in its view, adequate parking facilities already existed and the proposed development would interfere with traffic on an important main road and injure the amenities of the neighbourhood.

The Minister was not satisfied with these arguments.

PRESTON BUS REVENUE UP.

IN the year ended March 31 last, Preston Corporation's transport undertaking, 'comprising a bus and tram system, carried some 20,000,000 passengers, the bus traffic having increased from 11,693,647 passengers in 1933-34 to 15,276,404. The tram traffic declined.

The bus revenue, at £82,649, or 15.48d. per bus-mile, compared with £64,477 and 15.63d. respectively a year earlier. The tramways revenue declined from £44,237 (14.73d. per vehicle-mile) in 1933-34 to £30,104 (14,09d. per vehicle-mile) in 193435.


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