Northern Roadways Grant : S.O. Appeal
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TT is understood that Scot tish
Omnibuses, Ltd., intends to appeal against the granting of a licence by the Scottish Licensing Authority to Northern Roadways, Ltd., to operate new services between Glasgow and Edinburgh and London, as reported in " The Commercial Motor" last week.
Mr. James Amos, chairman of Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., states that the company's predecessors, the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., ran such services for nearly 25 years. Under the Road Traffic Act, 1930, operations have been restricted by direct order of the Minister of Transport to not more than 10 vehicles a day in the summer and eight in the winter.
Before this Ministerial order was made, services were run without restrictions on duplication. The Minister of the day stated clearly that his decision on duplication was related o the long-distance functions of the .ailway companies.
"Thus the statement that the present merators were either unwilling to apply or extra duplication, or unwilling to )perate, is not in accordance with facts," ays Mr. Amos.
A new nightly luxury-coach service etween Glasgow and Scarborough, to . operated by Northern Roadways, .1c1., is scheduled to start on May 7. ?aro will be 21s. single and 36s. eturn.
LEYLAND TRAINS PAKISTANI ENGINEERS
701.3R engineers from the West Pakistan Government Commercial ransport Department arrived at Leynd Motors, Ltd., last week, to attend te technical training school which the )mpany maintains.
The Government has taken delivery E 30 I.eyland Comets which are being ,ted with locally built 42-seater bodies, )me of the vehicles are already in rvice between Karachi and Hala. As ore are put on the road, this service ill be extended to Sukkar, 325 miles om Karachi.
Plans are in hand for the construction a 400,000-rupee repair depot. When e engineers return home, they expect find the depot sufficiently completed r them to assume their supervisory ties.
Thirty Super Hippos will be delivered Pakistan this year for work on the RI barrage irrigation scheme. ANOTHER STATE GAIN IN EASTERN AREA
ANOTHER two private operators In the Eastern Traffic Area have been acquired by the British Transport Commission. They are Benfleet and District Motor Services, Ltd., and the Canvey and District Motor Transport Co., Ltd. The B.T.C. is to take over the two concerns on March 1, when they will come under the control of Westclilf-on-Sea Motor Services, Ltd., an ex-Titling company.
The two companies last year carried between them over 7m. passengers, and run 30 double-deckers. The only two private concerns now operating in the Southend area are the City Coach Co.. Ltd., and J. W. Campbell and Sons, I.td., Pitsea.
END OF "TRAFFIC CASES"
BECAUSE the nationalization of longdistance road haulage and the railways has so greatly reduced the number of subscribers, Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd., 2-3, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2, is discontinuing the publication of "Traffic Cases." Part VI of Volume 29, which has just appeared, ends the series. "Traffic Cases" has been published since 1874.
Procession Season in Full Swing
nWNER-DRIVERS were well repre
sented in a protest parade of 60 free-enterprise haulage vehicles, last Saturday, through Brownhills, Sheffield, Rushall, Walsall, Bloxwich, Great Wyrley and Cannock. A model, of a white elephant, symbolizing nationalized iransport, was carried. The event was organized by Cannock sub-area of the Road Haulage Association.
The Walsall police • facilitated the passage of the procession through the town, but in Cannock the vehicles were dispersed by the police before reaching the centre, and great confusion was caused.
Two processions to have been held last week in Stourbridge and Dudley were cancelled.
Most of the 88 members in Cannock sub-area are short-distance hauliers, but are campaigning on behalf of the Transport (Amendment) Bill. According to Mr. W. Heminsley, sub-area secretary, the revocation of permits in Walsall would increase competition in the short-distance field, and all vehicles could not be kept fully employed on the limited traffic available.
The demonstration in Glasgow, to have been held last Saturday, will now take place tomorrow. There will be three processions, following separate routes. The assembly areas are Old Shettleston Road, Prospecthill Road and Maryhill Road. A procession is dui to be held also in Edinburgh tomorrow.
WESTERN S.M.T. MAY RUN NEW SERVICE
THE Minister of Transport last week upheld thc decision of the Scottish Licensing Authority, granting the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., permission to run a new service between Barrhead and Neilston. Appealing against the decision were McGill's Bus Services. Ltd., • liarrhead, and the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society.
For McGill's it was stated that the new service, which was for the benefit of a new housing estate at Neilston, would abstract traffic from the concern's service from Barrhead. The S.C.W.S. wished certain restrictions to be placed on the new service.
In the decision, it was stated that McGill's had produced insufficient evidence to disprove the existence of need for a new service, and that there appeared to be no justification for the restrictions sought by the S.C.W.S.