CONCESSIONS TO ...CROWN FORCES?
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FAR reductions and a special concession of 25 per cent, to members of Crown Forces when travelling on duty were sought by the northern pool companies when their licences for the Liverpool Newcastle Redcar route came up for renewal at a sitting of the Traffic Commissioners at Manchester, last week.
. The pool companies are: North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., Lancashire United Transport and Power Co., Ltd., West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., United Automobile Services, Ltd., and Northern General Transport Co., Ltd.
Mr. Edgar Lustgarten, for the applicants, mentioned that the concession would not be a precedent in the area, because it had been made in respect of Services from Newcastle to Hull. Repeated requests for it had been made by the officers of the Northern Command, and before the operation of the Road Traffic Act such concessions were frequently given by road operators.
Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for the L.M.S. Railway Co., said that the case raised an important principle, which should not be decided without consultation between the chairmen of other traffic areas.
Mr. W. Chamberlain, chairman, stated that the chairmen of Commissioners haa already discussed a policy in respect of such fares, and he would refer to that decision before dealing with the matter.
NO NEWCASTLE TRAMS IN FIVE YEARS.
WITHIN the next four or five years IN all the trams in Newcastle operated by the city council will be replaced by trolleybuses. This opinion was expressed in an interview by Councillor John E. Scanlan, vice-chairman of the transport and electricity coin-. mittee. He said that the committee intended introducing trolleybuses on as many routes as possible.
LATEST ACCOUNTS SHOW VARIED FORTUNES.
THE " season " for reviewing muni cipal transport accounts for the past year is now well under way. Below we publish some of the most recently issued results.
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Last year's loss on Lincoln Corporation's transport department was £2,165, compared with . £1,402 in the previous year. Nevertheless, receipts rose by 64 per cent. and 8,000,000 passengers were carried over 1.074,000 miles, Costs rose by /2% per cent., due to increases in wages and fuel costs, and from other causes.
• PORTSMOUTH.
• During a difScult year, which saw a transition " from trains to trolleybuses, Portsmouth COTporation made a profit of £644, against £5,606 a year earlier. The trading profit was £70,900, against Z64,742.
• NOTTINGHAM.
• Of the balance of £126,335 shown in Notting, ham Corporations accounts for the year ended March 31 last, 481,866 has been devoted to the redemption of debt, £19 i087 to the purchase of buses, 414,793 to nterest on stock and loan, and £10,604 to reserve and renewals. Intone from the 97,152,312 passengers carried totalled 4605,261, averaging 14.537d, per vehicle-mile, a decrease of 0.112d compared with the previous year's figure. 1Norking expenses, at £478,925, increased by 0.065d. to 11.504,1. per vehicle-mileWages and insurance alone were responsible for a rise of £11,682. The 125 trolleybuses returned an income of 16.437d. per mile, and the 190 motorbuses,. 13.42,1.
SALFORD.
Last year, Salford Corporation's transport department created a revenue record by taking £592,913, which was /20,952 more than in 1935-36. The hiss mileage totalled some 6,000.000.
EDINBURGH.
Edinburgh Transport Department reports that for the past year the number of passengers 'carried on the motorbuses was 47.818.018. an increase of 5.398,294 over the previous vear's figure. Receipts rose by £30.903 to £279,688. The trams conveyed 145,015,945 passengers, an increase of 1,352,060. receipts, at £812,496, being higher by £9,329.
HIGHER PAY REJECTED.
pay and improved conditions. They are seeking power to assign their agreement and enter into a new one. The employers suggested an increase of fel per hour in wages and an extra day's holiday a year.
DISPUTE OVER MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT.
D ADCLIFFE (Lancs) Borough Coun
cil has received an account from Bury Corporation for £620, representing the half share of the loss incurred on the road-transport undertaking in the borough for the past year.
In the first agreement covering 30 years, Bury had to meet the full loss on the undertaking in Radcliffe, The new agreement, under which Radcliffe meets half of the profit or loss, is, after 18 months, not yet signed, because the two authorities have not yet been able to agree on some of the points. Radcliffe Transport Committee threatens to proceed no further with the agreement unless certain points are accepted.