Costs Rise Faster Than Revenue
Page 33
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
A LTHOUGH, during the past year, PA Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., carried 3.000,000 more passengers than in the previous year, the increase in operating costs more than offset the gain in revenue, said Mr. W. T. James, 0.11.E., chairman, at the company's annual general meeting, last week. .
During the year the company operated 10,250,000 miles and carried n ea rf y 60,000,000 passengers—both record figures..
Mr. James said that coaching in the south-west should be regarded as an essential service, because catering for holiday makers was the major industry, and it should not be limited by the restriction on fuel supplies.
SCHEME TO MODERNIZE BUSES IN CEYLON
UNDER a scheme proposed by a combine of the existing operators, who are endeavouring to forestall drastic • legislative action to co-ordinate transport in Ceylon, 45-seater singledeckers with prefabricated ail-metal bodies will he introduced. The vehicles would be operated in Colombo and the provinces, and Would be similar to those run by the Bombay State Transport Board.
A motion by a member of the Ceylon House of Representatives to nationalize bus services has been defeated. • Its India, the Punjab Assembly has unanimously passed an unofficial resolution recommending the Government to postpone for three years its scheme to nationalize road transport. It is suggested, however, that the Government might operate certain routes experimentally.
LONDON-TYPE TAXIS FOR
. BRISTOL •
DRISTOL taxicab owners have been 1-) notified that after March 25, 195l, replacement vehicles must be of the London type. Mr. F. J. Dove, chairman of Bristol Streamline and Black and White Taxis Associated, has described this instruction as a "bombshell." A small number of this type of taxicab already operates in Bristol.