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West Hartlepool Fares Too Low

13th May 1955, Page 37
13th May 1955
Page 37
Page 37, 13th May 1955 — West Hartlepool Fares Too Low
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Keywords : Haulage

rAA REVISION in fares designed to yield another £16,000 a year is recommended to West Hartlepool Corporation by Mr. D. E. Bell, who was called in to investigate the working of the transport department. He comments that the system is efficiently operated.

• Mr. Bell recommends that the 3d. workers' return should be increased by Id., that two-journey tickets be replaced by an early-morning. return at the rate of 4d. for a 21d. single journey, and that four-journey tickets and the 5d. return on the Hartlepool service be abolished.

The report states that ordinary single fares are now on an equitable basis and are already subsidizing uneconomic rates.

If the corporation proposed to continue workers' fares and twoand fourjourney tickets, it would be unfair to place the loss on the ordinary passenger; their cost should be borne by the rates as a whole. A drastic revision of uneconomic fares was essential.

The department expects to lose £6.500 on the current year.

CONCERN OVER CONDITION 01COAL LORRIES THE Northern Licensing Authority

said last week that he was still concerned about the condition of lorries employed on opencast coal sites. Mr. B. D. Fitzgerald, Newcastle, applied for a B licence to carry opencast coal and building materials within 25 miles.

"When checks were made last year," observed the Authority, "a considerable number of vehicles used on opencast coal haulage were found to be in a bad state of repair."

He refused the application, saying he was not satisfied with the evidence put forward. He would not grant any further application for opencast coal haulage until it was proved to him there was a shortage of vehicles for this class of work.

BIG TIPPER WEIGHS UNDER 4 TONS WEIGHING under 4 tons, a Leyland Vir Comet forward-control 13-cu.-yd. tipper is being produced by Isles, Ltd..

Leeds, Leyland service agents. One has been delivered to W. A. Sturgeon and Sons, Ltd.. Wakefield, Other orders include one from Burnett and Hallamshire Fuel, Ltd., Sheffield, who operate 14 Comets.

The chassis has a wheelbase shortened to 11 ft. 8 in. The cab, of special lightweight double-skin construction, weighs only 5 cwt. complete. The body, which is mounted on a lightalloy sub-frame, measures 14 ft. by 7 ft. 2 in. by 3 ft. 6 in. inside. Millshaw tipping gear is incorporated.

The Sturgeon concern will initially employ the tipper as an 8-tonner on coal haulage.


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