Coach Fare Too Low for 10 Years
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FOR 10 years a coach tour from Newcastle upon Tyne to Keswick had been operated below the proper fare by Galleys Motors, Ltd., Newcastle, the Northern Traffic Commissioners heard last week. Mr. F. Cowey, the company's manager, said they had charged 12s. 6d., whereas other operators had a fare of 15s. 9d. He was applying to increase the price to 17s. 6d. Answering Mr. J. L. R. Croft, for the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., Mr. Cowley said Galleys Motors did not apply for increases when their competitors did, which accounted for the undercharging. Their tours had been regularly advertised, and no complaints had been received. Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, chairman, said the increase would be granted, but the matter would be investigated further when the licence came up for renewal. The company had not been operating in accordance with their licence, he added.
"CURE URBAN CONGESTION"
THE major traffic problem today is not travelling between towns, but in circulating in and around them, says Mr. Wallace E. Riche, chairman of the Roads Improvement Association, in his annual report issued on Tuesday.
Industries were located in towns, and 80 per cent, of the population lived and worked in them, and 75 per cent, of all road casualties occurred in urban areas.
Most of the time-saving merits of the new motorways and modernized trunk roads would be nullified if vehicles, on leaving these roads, met traffic troubles as they entered towns en route to their destinations.
RADIO SAVES 20 PER CENT. OF VEHICLES rrHE use of radio control for internal
1. delivery vans at the 60-acre Nottingham factory of Raleigh Industries, Ltd., has resulted in eight vehicles being able to do the work of 10, the company have reported. The system was introduced a year ago to prevent vans having to make continual journeys back to a central point for instructions.
It is estimated that the 32 vehicles now work a full day, whereas their previous productive time was only about . four hours.
SNOCAT ON BRITISH TOUR ONE of the Snocats used in Dr. Fuch's Antarctic expedition is touring the country on a semi-low-loader outfit operated by Beck and Pollitzer, Ltd,, London, S.E,1. The Snocat arrived last Saturday at Tilbury, after being carried by the Transport Ferry Service from Antwerp on a Beck and Pollitzer trailer. This was picked up by an E.R.F. tractor. and taken to Trafalgar Square, London, where it will be on exhibition until next Monday night. It will then go on tour. The Snocat is 20 ft. 6 in. long_ and 8 ft. wide, and was one of two that finished the Antarctic journey.