Voucher Scheme for Bedford Service
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FROM December 1, a new standard, price system is being introduced to simplify attention to lubrication and routine maintenance for owners of Bedford vehicles. Every new vehicle leaving the Luton factory will have a special container fixed inside the driving compartment. In this will be a book containing 20 vouchers. Each voucher will detail the attention the vehicle should receive every 1,000 miles.
The items listed vary according to the mileage shown on the voucher, so that when the book is used up every operation of routine maintenance and lubrication necessary in 20,000 miles will have been attended to at the intervals prescribed by Vauxhall engineers. By means of a window in the container, the driver is reminded constantly of the mileage when the vehicle is next due for attention.
The system will be operated by all authorized Vauxhall-Bedford dealers in this country. Each service will be paid for at the time it is carried out, the charge being printed on the counterfoil of each voucher.
The dealer will stamp the counterfoil of each voucher as it is used, so that the owner has a permanent record of the service the vehicle receives.
Books of vouchers for vehicles produced before December 1, and replacement books for new models, will be available from dealers.
BUS OPERATORS THREATENED TO GIVE UP LICENCES
BBECAUSE "crippling taxation" was causing them to run at a heavy loss. 10 bus operators in the north-east had threatened to surrender their licences, Mr. R. G. Hunter, secretary of the Northern Road Transport Owners' Association, told the Northern Licensing Authority at Newcastle upon Tyne last week.
Mr. Hunter was representing Layfield Transport Services, Ltd., Thomaby, who successfully applied for permission to reduce the frequency of their service between Stockton and Northallerton, and to abolish return fares.
"It is all a matter of £. s. d.," Mr. Hunter said. " LayfieId's can no longer afford to run a daily service."
HOLIDAY SERVICE AUTHORIZED
THE East Midland Licensing Authority granted a licence to the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., last week to run a service from Nottingham to Cromer on six Saturdays during the holiday season.
The application was supported by the North Norfolk Hotels Association. British Railways objected.
It was stated that the company ran a service to Yarmouth via King's Lynn and Norwich, and passengers had to change and complete the remainder of their journeys to the north Norfolk coast by stage carriage.