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E.xPREss'bus services for workers obliged to travel long distances from central. London to the outer suburbs are called for in a memorandum submitted to the Ministry of Transport Committee of Inquiry into "London Transport by Mr. David Phillips, Liberal Parliamentary candidate for Dulwich and a former bus driver.
"With a minimum fare of 6d., such a service would speed up transport, earn more by carrying people prepared to pay more for speedier travel, and discourage short-distance travellers from crowding out others," he states.
Mr. Phillips criticizes the centralized system of bus control by superintendents, and asks that ,divisional superintendents should be responsible for the earning capacity of their vehicles. Convoys of buses, he says, .could be eliminated by allowing road inspectors to turn buses where they are not needed.
Calls for more short-journey workings, and for the return of cheap midday fares are also made.
THE ONLY ONE
WHEN Mr. W. Baker, •Tetbury, applied to the Western Licensing Authority last week for permission to carry goods within a 100-mile radius under his existing B licence, it was stated that he was the only haulier in Tetbury who could go outside the 15
mile radius. Objections by British Road Services and British Railways were withdrawn. The application was granted.
B.S. 1954 YEARBOOK
BRI E F descriptions of 2,500 British I-) Standards current at March 31 this 'year are given in the 1954 edition of the British Standards Yearbook, together with much other interesting information. The Yearbook is obtainable from the British Standards Institution, British Standards House:2 Park Street, London, W.1, at 12s. 6d. HOW TO MAKE A PROFIT QUOGESTIONS on how to make h.., rural bus 'services more profitable are to be made to the Rural District Councils Association by the Somerset branch. One is that buses operating in rural "areas should be permitted to carry mails.
It was decided to take this step after a meeting of the branch, last week, had been told that it was claimed that a peak in fares had been reached and that if operators' income fell, rural services would be cut.