Protest Against Crush-loaders
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1-1 A PROTEST is to be made by Raw marsh Urban District Council to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners against the use by the Mexborough and Swinton Traction Co. of crush-load buses [described in The Commercial Motor on February 1] on services to Rotherham. The Council contend that there is a great danger to standing passengers, particularly old people. The council have also decided to discuss with the local authorities of Mexborough, Conisborough, Swinton and Wath, the option compulsorily to purchase the bus company. The authorities have the right to discuss this point periodically under statute. The next opportunity to make proposals for compulsory purchase will be in 1959.
LESS FROM LEVY ON HAULIERS rHARGES upon hauliers collected by the New South Wales Commissioner for Motor Transport in the year ended June 30, 1956, amounted to £841,866, compared with L1,231,781 for 1954-55. This was because of the decision by the .Privy Council, in November, 1954, that provisions of the State Transport (Co-ordination) Act relating to vehicles engaged on interstate transport were unconstitutional: Most goods carried by road in 1955-56 were taken on journeys of up to 50 miles. The quantity taken for longer distances hit railway revenues. Although much of the traffic could have beell accommodated by the railways, whose services had been expanded and improved, there was an increasing tendency to use road transport to carry from door to door, states the Commissioner in his report. Many operators sought to work without licences or exceed licence conditions. At June 30 last year there were 237,730 lorries and 1,453 vans licensed in the State, also 3.586 buses, compared with 222,273, 1,413 and 3,566 respectively a year earlier.