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Operators Should Get Together

15th January 1954
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

"IN this very small district where' I there are only two operators, it would be very desirable if a common schedule should be prepared." Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, made this suggestion at Kendal, last week, when he granted permission to Parker's Motors, Ltd.,' Grange-over-Sands, to increase from four to five the number of coaches they operated on one-day excursions to Sedburgh, the Lune Valley and Edinburgh, and Scarborough.

"The only clash between these two operators is on day and half-day excursions, and we strongly recommend them to get together on the mattp," he added.

Mr. R. E. Blackhurst, managing director of the Grange Motor and Cycle Co., who objected, said that another vehicle would seriously affect his company's loadings. Last season, only 6,403 out of a total of 10,299 seats were occupied.

Mr. C. E. Parker, managing director of Parker's Motors, said his company owned two hotels in Grange. The demand for coach trips by visitors had greatly increased in the past two years, with the result that they had created : new business.

ECONOMIST HITS AT RAILWAY RATES THE old rates structure of the rail' ways meant that some traffic was carried at below cost and in many instances the railways retained traffic which would be better carried by roast Mr. G. J. Ponsonby, of the London School of Economics, made this observation when he spoke to the Merseyside and District Section of the Institute of Transport, last week.

He said that he wanted to see a railway charges scheme which did not discriminate in respect of any traffic and reflected the real cost of carriage Why should there be secrecy about charges, he asked. One could telephone a haulier and obtain a figure in a few minutes, but any information about rail transport frequently involved long delays.

NO GREATER VISIBILITY FROM YELLOW BEAM

EXPERIMENTS made by the Road 1—/ Research Laboratory have shown that the claim of greater visibility in fog by the use of a yellow head-light beam is "definitely disproved." This statement was made at an industrial conference in London last week, at which the use of yellow lights on industrial vehicles as a safety measure was discussed.

It was also stated that an international committee on which the Ministryof Transport is represented, were preparing to make tests in the U.S.A. this year on the question of dazzle from vehicle lights.


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