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" Country Places Face Isolation NA ANY parts of rural En g land

11th April 1958, Page 48
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were 1V1 facing an isolation which they had not previously experienced since the advent of the internal-combustion engine. said Mr. W. F. Deedes (Cons., Ashford)

the House of Commons in last week, when he opened a debate on the state of country bus services.

Tt was tragic, he said, that the work which had been done to improve other rural amenities, such as water and electricity supply, should be threatened by• a collapse of the transport system. Some transport undertakings were not facing their difficulties imaginatively. The British Transport Commission should agree to meet the losses of bus operators who provided services in substitution of uneconomic branch lines. Viscount Hinchingbrooke (Cons., Dorset South) wished Section 72 of the 1930 Act to be amended. It prevented enterprising people from coming forward to provide rural services as they had to face a large amount of opposition. Proof of need should not be incumbent upon applicants. Existing operators should prove that their services were adequate, Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, referred to the report on rural transport in Northumberland (The Commercial Motor, March 7). This was being studied . by the Traffic Commissioners, and a conference would be held with them about it.

He did not think that as a result of the new Construction and Use Regulations small buses would abstract traffic from big operators. Replying to the point made by Lord Hinehingbrooke, he said that the Commissioners' problem lay not so much in attracting new operators as in preserving present facilities.

The B.T.C. subsidized some operators who ran buses taking the place of closeddown branch lines, but their financial position did not allow them to do so generally. Subsidies to rural operators would not meet the difficulty because most non-paying routes were covered by profitable town services, Nevertheless, this question was being studied. Nothing could be done to stop an increasing number of country people from buying arid using their own vehicles.

OPERATORS ENCOURAGED THE Minister of Transport had asked the Traffic Commissioners to give every encouragement to rural bus operators and they were doing so, Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, told the House of Commons last week.

G.N.R. LOSS LIGHTER

THE Irish Great Northern Railway 1 system lost £1,081,748 in the year ended September last—£96.139 less than in the previous 12 months. The trading loss was £173,237 less because of an improvement in road passenger receipts. There was a 5+-per-cent, increase in the volume of road passenger traffic, and road cattle traffic rose SY 132 per cent.

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Bodies may be produced with either an open roof for overhead loading, or closed with a full-width translucent plastics panel in the centre of the roof. Flooring in various materials is offered,

and is based on 8-in.-deep cross-members pitched at 1-ft. 6-in. intervals_ The. rear on

bogie can be arranged sliders for adjustment to suit different State laws regarding axle loadings. The coupling gear incorporates a boxtype foundation of shallow design, and a king-pin which is press-fitted into a casting welded to the foundation.

Two More Areas for Transport Club

'TWO more areas are expected to be I inaugurated shortly by the Transport Managers' Club. Membership last year totalled about 400 in London, Manchester, Liverpool, the Midlands and East Lancashire. It is stated to be increasing. Mr. A. R. Butt (Morris Transport Co., Ltd.) has succeeded Mr. A. Addison (A. Addison and Co.) as national chairman. Other office holders have been reelected as .follows: national president, Mr. H. T. Duffield; national secretary, Mr. W. J. Irons; national treasurer, Mr. C. Clark.

London Area: President, Mr. W. W. roster; chairman, Mr. D. Cameron; secretary, Mr, R. Lyon; treasurer, Mr. C. Clark.

Midland Area: President, Mr. A. C. W.

Neely; chairman, Mr. F. W. Baker; secretary, Mr. A. R. Butt; treasurer, Mr. F. G. Messenger. Liverpool Area: President, Mr. J. H. ' Mullineaux; chairman, Mr. G. Lawmenson; secretary, Mr. A. Lightfoot; treasurer, Mr. L. I. Sissons.

Manchester Area: President, Mr. F. B. Carson; chairman, Mr. N. Potts; secretary, Mr. K. M. C. Stoneman; treasurer, Mr. A. B. Carson. East Lancashire Area: President, Mr. T. Thompson; chairman, Mr. C. Bolton; secretary, Mr. B. Harwood; treasurer, Mr. A. Addison. Membership of the club, which was formed in 1943, consists of about twothirds independent hauliers and industrial transport managers, and one-third officials of 13ritish -Road Services.

12% MORE A WEEK

TAKING effect from April 7, a 12s-aweek pay increase has been awarded after arbitration to 1,500 members of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union who work in Belfast.


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