Three Processions To-morrow
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TO-MORROW (December 16) the 1 Yorkshire (Sheffield) Area of the Road Haulage Association is staging processions of vehicles simultaneously in Sheffield, Barnsley and Doncaster. The plan is fel_ vehicles to assemble at the four points of the compass outside each town and then parade through the centre, where their paths will cross. The vehicles will drive straight on and return from another direction.
These demonstrations are in protest against the revocation of permits and follow the lead given by Leicester Subarea of the R.H.A. It is understood that similar processions are being arranged in other parts of the country, including the West Midlands.
DRASTIC CHANGES AT MANCHESTER?
THE "reorganization of the trans' port undertaking from top to bottom" was forecast in a statement issued in Manchester, last week, after the municipal transport committee had spent two days in considering the reports of four sub-committees which it set up eight months ago on the instructions of the city council.
Various recommendations are to be placed before the council in January and, if approved, drastic changes in the working :of the corporation • transport department are•likely to take place.
CLOSER WORKING IN I.R.U. THE office of president of the Inter' national Road Transport Union 0R-U.) is to be rotated among the three sectional interests. Mr. Schweitzer, of Switzerland, is now president, succeeding Dr. Spat, of Holland, who has held the position since the Union's formation.
It was decided at last month's meet., ings in Geneva to establish an experts' committee for each of the three sections. Col A. Jerrett, president of the Traders' Road Transport Association, was elected chairman of the ancillary users' eommittee.
At the Union's meetings in Brussels last July, it was indicated that certain changes would be made to ensure closer' working between professional hauliers and ancillary users. Collaboration among the sections was evident at the Geneva meetings, last month.
"RED ROSE" GOES TO B.T.C.
• r\N December 31, the British Trans‘—/ port Commission will take over the Red Rose services of R.R. Coaches, Ltd., Wendover, which has been voluntarily acquired. Future operations will be controlled by the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., from
Aylesbury. The Red Rose company was founded in 1925.
The Swan Motor Co., Ltd., Swansea, was taken ovei by the B.T.C. on Monday.
Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., has acquired Dallam Bus Services, which have been operated by Messrs. J. and H. Fawcett, Milnthorpe, since 1924
NO LIGHTS IN LIGHTED STREET? A BILL to make legal the leaving of a 1-1vehicle without lamps in a street that is lit was presented in the House of Commons last week by Mr Spearman. He described it as a measure partly to overcome the shortage of garages and to economize on battery consumption. Mr. Keenan called the Bill retrogressive and dangerous. It will be read a second time on January 26 next.