JOINT CONTROL AT SOUTHEND?
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D1.110,NG the pit nine months, Thomas Tilling, Ltd., has approached Southend Corporation with a view to forming a joint transport undertaking, similar to those at Keighley and York, said Councillor A, Mackintosh, at a meeting of Thorpe
Ward Ratepayers Association. •
Mr. Mackintosh declared that the chairman of Thomas Tilling, Ltd., on behalf of .Westcliff-on7Sea Motor Services, Ltd., proposed to the transport committee that the two undertakings should pool their receipts and divide equally the surplus.
SWANSEA AGREEMENT ON TROLLEYBUSES.
SWANSEA Corporation will not object to the Bill which the South Wales Transport. Co., Ltd., is promoting to seek power to abandon the local tramways in favour of motorbus operation. An agreement between the corporation and the company provides for the loaning by the former to the latter of £100,000.
Amongst the terms of the agreement is provision for the payment by the company; from 1943 to 1957, of a minimum of £5,000 a year, or a quarter of the local profits, whichever be the greater.
Several rival bus companies will, however, oppose the Bill in connection with protective fares.
COMPANY PREVENTED FROM BUILDING STATION.
LAST week a Ministry of Health inquiry was held at Skegness, when the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., appealed from a decision, of the local council to prevent the concern, • under the town-planning scheme, from developing certain land in Drummond Road for the construction of a bus station. The land adjoins a small bus station owned by the company.
The council itself has a station scheme under consideration.
The appellant company operates a large number of buses to and from the resort, which, at present, disembark and load passengers at four different points in the town. It was claimed that a central station will considerably relieve congestion and inconvenience.
The main contentions of the council were that the proposed location is dangerous, having regard to the' claims of other traffic, and that the land in question is scheduled as a residential area under the town-planning scheme. These arguments were denied.
DELIVERIES FOR WHITSUN.
DELIVERIES, in time for the Whitsun traffic, of Dennis 32-36-seater coaches, with Duple bodies, can be made by Coaches and Components, Ltd., 469-471, Holloway Road, London, N.7. The company has placed a large order with Duple Bodies and Motors, Ltd., for luxury bodies for Dennis Lancet chassis, complete vehicles costing £1,395.