RECENT HAPPENINGS IN THE TRAFFIC AREAS
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M.H.C.S.A. Deputation to Minister.
SOME of the points raised by the
Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., regarding the administration of the Road Traffic Act have been under the consideration of the Minister of Transport, who says he is arranging to receive a deputation from the association at an early date.
Signs of Municipal Interest at Last.
NORTHUMBERLAND County Coun cil is to discuss the refusal of the Traffic Commissioners to grant licences for bus services on several routes. A resolution of protest is likely to be passed. February 9th Order Not Ultra Vines.
IN delivering judgment in an action
brought by the Attorney-General at the relation of Red Rover Saloon Coaches, against Premier Line, Ltd., claiming an injunction to restrain the defendant from operating coaches on the London-Aylesbury road, Mr. Justice Eve, in the High Court (Chancery Division), has given a ruling on the Order made by the late Minister of Transport, permitting those services that started only before February 9th, 1931, to continue until applications were considered by the Commissioners. The contention of the defendant that this order, was tiftra vires was not accepted by his lordship.
Southern Area Fares Investigation.
THE Southern Commissioners have received and collated considerable information and suggestions from operators concerning the matter of fares, and hope that, by January 31st, these will be summarized into a definite policy for 1932 licences.
London Coach Halt on Private Land.
IT is learned from Mr. F. A. kiln, the "popular member of the Road Services Fares Tribunal, that his company, the M.T. Co., of Endwell Road, London, S.E.4, has taken premises and land at 167-169, New Cross Road (a few yards from New Cross Gate), to provide a halt off the public highway for the use of coaches. The vehicle entrance and exit are in Hatcham Park Road, and between them vehicles will pass a long waiting-room which is being built. Other rooms of the existing building are being converted into waiting and refreshment rooms, etc. The whole site is being laid with concrete and finished with Granolithie surfacing. It is intended that any proprietor shall be able to make use of the station, a small charge being made per departure. It is hoped that the limitation of picking-up points will hot seriously interfere with the usefulness of this enterprise.
Railway Opposes Associated Company. AT the recent Leicester sitting of the East Midlands Commissioners, the London Midland and Scottish Railway Co. objected to an application made by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., for permission to run special buses over ordinary service routes when circumstances warranted it. The chairman of the Commissioners said that the matter should not have been brought before him, as the railway company owns a big proportion of the bus company's share capital, and the matter should have been settled privately. Several instances of this kind have arisen lately.