• YORKSHIRE TOUR FARES REVISION
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THE Yorkshire Traffic Commis1 sioners have • published their proposals for the revision of fares for excursions and tours, following an exhaustive review covering services of this type operated from every starting point in the Yorkshire Area. The purpose of the revision is to . remove anomalies. In the majority of cases the proposed • alterations involve fare reductions, but in some instances increases are proposed.
Representations or objections concerning the scheme will be heard by the Commissioners at public sittings at Leeds on December 21-22, and at Chesterfield on December 29.
The Commissioners' review of fares followed consideration of the matter by the operators themselves and by the Yorkshire Regional Fares Committee. District meetings of independent excursion and tour operators were held under the auspices of the passenger operators' standing joint committee, which is representative of various associations. The revision proposals emanating from the districts were then placed before the Regional Fares Committee, which made recoMmendations to the Commissionerk Their scheme of revision differs in some respects from the Regional Fares Committee's recommendations, but, to some extent, it is based upon them.
.ATTEMPT TO OUTBID STOKE. I T is understood that the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., has attempted to outbid Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme Corporations in the purchase of local bus undertakings. As already reported in The Commercial Motor, an endeavour is being made to set up a municipal transport board in North Staffordshire, involving the acquisition of nearly 60 private enterprises.
The private operators are stated to have refused to depart from the draft agreements entered into with Stokeon-Trent Corporation.
NEW TERMS FO WORKERS IN POTTERIES.
I NCREASES of wages on the basic rates have been offered by the operators, and accepted by the employees of North Staffordshire bus companies. A settlement has been arrived at in the dispute, affecting about 700 men, with regard to long spread-over duties.
The terms accepted were offered by the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and have been agreed to by the men and will be adhered to by other operators. The rates are as follow :— Drivers, commencing at 1s. 2d. per hour and rising after three years to 1s. aid.; conductors, commencing at 1s. id. per hour and rising after three years to 1s. 21d.
The agreement will be for 18 months' duration until March, 1938, being also retrospective from October 3 last. The agreement which it supersedes would have expired next May.