• Corporation and Company Disagree
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A LICENCE application by Middles brough Corporation has been adjourned by the Northern Traffic Commissioners to allow discussion between the corporation and United Automobile Services, Ltd. Middlesbrough applied for the renewal of a licence for a service from Brambles Farm Estate to Newport, but with a picking-up point at Ormesby. The service is at present suspended because of the shortage of staff. Under the original licence the corporation were not permitted to serve Ormesby, which
is the exclusive sphere of .
Mr. J. L. 12_ Croft, for U.A.S., objected to Middlesbrough picking up and setting down at Ormesby. He said that the company's service was operated at a loss. When Middlesbrough's licence was originally granted the corporation did not wish to serve Ormesby. It was the municipality's policy to charge a fare of not more than 2d., which would contrast greatly with the higher fare charged by U.A.S.
21m. PASSENGERS LOST
BECAUSE of last year's bad summer season, the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., carried 21m. fewer passengers than in 1955, and total mileage fell by about 130,000, Mr. W. T. James, chairman, told shareholders last Friday.
Principally because of threatened industrial strife in the Midlands, there was a substantial drop in the number
• A holiday visitors until early August. The position was aggravated by the increased use of oars, which had a twofold, effect on the buses. First, there were fewer passengers to be carried, and secondly, because of the bad weather, which kept people away from the beaches, "cars prowled the roads for want of something to do, thereby creating appalling congestion which resulted in delays and .dislocation of services."