FORTHCOMING EVENTS IN THE VARIOUS TRAFFIC AREAS
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Northern Scotland. ONE more sitting is to be held at Aberdeen "on December 22nd, to clear up a few miscellaneous applications, details of which are given in Part 1 of Gazette 27. The applications are mainly from independent operators, and relate to stage services and backings for excursion lieences.
Southern Scotland.
AT the Edinburgh sitting, commenc ing December 14th, a large number of stage-carriage applications by the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., is to be considered, there being few objections. An express-carriage application by Messrs. Rymers, of Liverpool, for a route between that city and Glasgow will be opposed by the railways and associated companies, and certain other independent operators will face similar objection.
Northern.
A FT_TRTHER list of cases to be heard on December 14th at Newcastle is now announced by the Northern Com
missioners. It includes stage-carriage applications by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., Sunderland District Omnibus Co., Ltd., and United Automobile Services, Ltd.; so far, no objections are listed.
Yorkshire.
THE Sheffield sitting on December 15th will be marked by L.N.E.R. opposition to a number of express-service applications, as well as applications for excursions from Yorkshire towns. Several local authorities will be represented at this sitting to request the Commissioners to grant special conditions.
North-Western. APPLICATIONS by Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., which are due for hearing at Chester to-day and to morrow, are not opposed by the associated railway companies. They relate to all classes of service and are not free from objection by other operators. On Thursday a public, inquiry will be opened into Bootle Corporation's objections to bus-service withdrawals by the Liverpool authority. Losses have been made by running buses along tramcar routes.
West Midland.
CONSIDERABLE work has yet to be done in this area to complete the 1931 applications. There is a full programme for the Hereford sitting, which opens to-morrow, and a number of the private concerns making application will meet with opposition from the "Midland Red," Birmingham Corporation, Red and White Services, Ltd., and Others. The bulk of the applications listed for hearing up to December 14th are those of independent concerns.
Eastern.
DIFFxcura cases of opposition to East Anglian operations by the railways and their associated road companies will hold the Commissioners' attention at Norwich on December 15th and 16th. They will proceed to Cambridge and on December 17th and 18th will hear applications ,of Green Line Coaches, Ltd., and competing companies in respect of London coach services. These eases will, it is anticipated, be highly argumentative.
East Midland.
THE sitting at Nottingham, commenc ing December 14th, is to be concerned almost entirely with the smaller operators, many of whose applications for 1931 have yet to be heard. The Blackpool-London service of Holt Bros. (Rochdale), Ltd., is being disputed by the two railway companies affected. Southern.
THE last of the Southern Area appli cations are now being dealt with, and a sitting has been arranged for Reading on December 14th, at which a miscellany of applications by small and large concerns will be dealt with.
A special warning is issued by the Commissioners to applicants that they should have available at this and subsequent sittings statistics of the number of passengers carried, number of vehicles in service and number of journeys made on any route during 1931, also, if possible, during the summer season of 1930.
South-Eastern.
MR. ROWAND HARKER and his assistant Commissioners have a heavy programme for the last month of the year. The London sitting, commencing to-morrow, will be occupied by some rather troublesome cases, in which the Southern Railway and associated companies are affected by the operations of independent concerns. Later a number of bus routes of the L.G.O. Co., Ltd., will be dealt with, some of those in the outlying areas being objected to by the railway company.
Metropolitan.
THE Commissioner's list for next week's hearing iat:±mblished. Express services between London and East Anglian towns, operated by Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., and by private concerns, but involving little opposition, are to be dealt with early in the week, and the rest of the time up to Friday will be taken up almost entirely by excursions, a great many of which are applied for by Messrs. P. Hearn and are unopposed. Excursion applications by the Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd.. of Manchester, are objected to by the L.G.O. Co., Ltd.