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JUBILEE COACH TRAFFIC GOOD
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I T was with some doubts that coach operators approached. the Jubilee holiday, last week-end, for they had no accurate knowledge of the traffic likely to be forthcoming and had no experience upon which to work. On Tuesday, Mr. L. E. Corbett, of London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., in
formed a representative of The Commercial Motor that the previous day's traffic to the coast wag almost as
heavy as that of a normal Bank Holi day. There was a fair volume of weekend traffic and the amount of coach tras el business did net appear to have been affected by the closeness of the Easter holiday. Ring's Cross Coach Station experienced a heavy volume of incoming
traffic and had no seats available on coaches to the coast on Bank Holiday Monday. There was a large number of vehicles garaged at the station during the week-end.
Mr. Gerald Nowell, of the London Terminal Coach Station, described the business as comparing with that of a good summer week-end, but not with a normal Bank Holiday week-end, MERGING I.F.S. BUS SERVICES: 300 FEWER LICENCES.
cIGURES issued by the Irish Free
State Department of Industry and Commerce show that, during the year ended June 12, 1934, 300 road passenger-transport licences were transferred under the terms of the Road Transport Acts, 1932 and 1933. Of this number, 197 were voluntary transfers, made up as follows :— From "other bus operators" to the Great Southern Railways, 157; from "other bus operators" to the Great Northern Railway, 1; from the Great Southern Railways to the Great Northern Railway, 11; from "other bus operators" to the Dublin United Tramways Co., Ltd., 18; miscellaneous, 10.
The remaining 10.3 licences were transferred by Order, as follows:— From "other bus operators" to the G.S.R., 55; from "other bus operators" to the G.N.R., 1; from "other bus operators" to the D.U.T., 47.
The following table shows the number of passenger road licences granted up to December 31 in each year of the past two years :—
. Continuons. Seasonal. Occasional.
194 166 74 55 485 233
reseyraai Northern
102 91 46 35 124 59
Londonderri. at Lough
way 13 12 5 Dpbiin United rataways
Co., Ltd. ... po 45 1 1 49 31 Other bua
operatora ... 205 197 82 80 298 200
The above table refers to the position as at December 31 of each year, so that a licence taken out by one company early in the year and later transferred to a second company would be entered opposite the first holder so long as the licence was still current.
The Department's report also states that, during the last pay-week in August last, 3,582 persons were employed in road passenger concerns, as compared with 3,377 in August, 1933.
MORE " RIBBLE " MERGERS. I T is reported that Ribble Motor Ser vices, Ltd., has purchased the businesses and buses of Messrs. H. and R. Spencel (Brookhouse Motors) and Messrs. G. E. Rowe (De Luxe Motors), who operate in the Preston, Bamber Bridge and Higher Walton neighbourhoods.
It is also stated that the Ribble concern is negotiating for the acquisition of the undertaking (excluding the buses) of Dallas Motors, Ltd., a company with an authorized capital of £8,000.
The plans for the merging of the businesses of W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., and Wright Brothers (Burnley), Ltd., both of which are controlled by the The Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., has recently taken delivery of this T.S.M. 32-seater coach, with a smart body by John C. Beadle (Coachbuilders), Ltd., Dartford. The contour of the luggage locker is
Ribble concern, are practically concluded, and the combined business is to be carried on under the Standerwick title. The Standerwick concern is purchasing 12 new Leyland Tiger coaches, with English Electric bodies, which will increase the combined fleets of the company and of Wright Brothers (Burnley), Ltd„ to 46 vehicles.
NO TROLLEYBUSES IN GLASGOW.
ALTITOUGH Glasgow Corporation secured trolleybus powers more than a year ago, it is reported that any thought of operating such vehicles has been abandoned.
EXTENDING IPSWICH SYSTEM.
I PSWICH Corporation has been suc cessful in its application to the Ministry of Transport for power to extend the trolleybus system, although one or two minor restrictions have been imposed.