B.M.M.O. Costs Up £469,245 in a Year : West Riding
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Applies APPLICATION to , raise fares has been made by Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., as a result of the increase in costs which has taken place since charges were last advanced in February this year. Since the previous application was made in November, 1951, operating costs have gone up by £469,245 a year, of which £206,250 followed the increase in fuel tax in the Budget. The award of higher pay to crews and maintenance staffs in September will cost the company another £209,687 a year.
The application does not affect all fares. It is proposed that adult single and scholars' return tickets from lid. to 3d. should cost id. more, making the minimum adult single rate 2d. Workmen's return fares will go up by id. to 3c1.. if the applicttion is granted, and miners' return fares will no longer be available on Sundays.
Another Id. Proposed
The application of West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., •to advance charges on 252 services has been published. It is suggested that all single fares shall go up by id. and scholars'. special return fares by id., and that 12-journey and monthly contract tickets shall be based on a new scale. Certain single fares are excluded from the application.
Grimsby and Cleethorpes Corporations have now received permission to advance charges on 15 and five services respectively. Permission to make Workmen's tickets available up to 9 a.m. on overlapping services run by the two municipalities has been refused, the East Midland Licensing Authority having given sanction for them to be issued up to 8.30 a.m.
. Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Co., Ltd., has received permission from the South Eastern Licensing Authority to advance by id., fares from 2d. to 7d. Day return fares, fiveand six-day tickets and certain other returns will also go up.
Last Id. Fare Giving decision, Lt.-Col. F. G. Tucker, Licensing Authority, complimented the concern on being the only one in his area to retain the id. fare and to carry children free up to five years 'ofage. For the company it was held that mobile shops, the increased use of bicycles and private cars and higher fares in Portsmouth had reduced the number of people travelling.
Southport Corporation has also received permission to advance charges for the fourth time in two years. Tele
vision was blamed by the deputy town clerk, who presented the corporation's case to the North Western Licensing Authority, for a fall in traffic. The new charges in most cases represent an advance of id. on earlier rates, except that the 2d. minimum fare is. retained for two-stage journeys. They will reduce the deficit this year from £15,115 to £4,865.
CRUSH-LOAD BUS IN WOLVERHAMPTON
A CRUSE-I-LOAD single-decker has 1l been put into experimental service by Wolverhampton Transport Department. It is an adapted 34-seat singledecker which now affords scats for 26 passengers and standing room for 24, and will be operated on-different routes so that public reaction may be judged.
"The public will appreciate that it is, perhaps, better to stand in a vehicle than it is to stand in a queue," said the general manager, Mr. R. H. Addlesee. If the vehicle it generallyapproved, the transport committee will probably considepconverting other single-deckers.
• IN A LINE OR TWO The Postmaster-General last week unveiled the first G.P.O. van to bear the new Royal Cipher.
Kerry's (Great Britain): Ltd., has opened a new tyre-service station at Cherwell Street, Oxford.
The Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association will hold its 1953 conference at Pitlochry froin October 7-10.
Beacon Motors, Ltd., Aston Road, Birmingham, 6, is to hold a Ford exhibition and service week from November 17-22.
Over 100 people attended the dinner and ladies' evening of the Transport Managers' Club (East Lanes area) at Blackpool last week.
Patent No. 677,623, briefly described in "The Commercial Motor" on October 24, covers a traffic-indicator switch, and not heavy-duty indicators.