Minister Supports Rambler Tours
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APPEALS by three operators against the grant by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority of a licence to George Ewer and Co., Ltd., authorizing them to operate from London a group of excursions and tours for ramblers, have been rejected, with costs, by the Minister of Transport.
The appellants were the Eastern National Omnibus Co., Ltd., Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., and Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd.
In his decision, the Minister stated that he considered that the evidence produced by George Ewer was sufficient to establish that the grant of a licence for an experimental period of 15 months was desirable in the public interest. He appreciated that the appellants might lose passengers, but he did not consider that the loss would be likely to be so substantial that the experiment should not be made.
The Minister has allowed an appeal by Mr. E. H. V. Sharpe (Hertfordian Coaches) against the Metropolitan Authority's refusal to grant him permission to operate similar tours from London.
Under an Order made by the Minister, Mr. Sharpe has been authorized to operate trips for ramblers to Kingsclere, Inkpen, Brill and Great Tew for an experimental period of 15 months. " BLITZ" ON FARE DODGERS CONCERN that many passengers are %.-.0 ignoring new higher fare scales has led Manchester Transport Department to concentrate as many inspectors as possible on one route at a time. A spokesman for the department states that the drive will last for some time. He emphasized that they were not looking for prosecutions. Dodgers would be asked to pay the extra money.
Improvements from Bus Merger?
LOWER fares and increased service 1—i frequencies may emerge from the forthcoming amalgamation of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes municipal bus undertakings. The cost of journeys crossing the boundary between the two towns, which is at present 4d., is likely to be reduced by at least Id.
Some redundancy among administrative and maintenance workers is expected.
TROLLEYBUSES TO GO?
PARLIAMENTARY power to replace trolleybuses by motorbuses in Hastings and Bexhill is to be sought by Maidstone and .District Motor Services, Ltd., who own Hastings Tramways Co.
66 Vehicles in Slough Contest
SIXTY-SIX vehicles will compete at Slough on Sunday in the local eliminating round for the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition. In the entry list no operator heavily predominates. British Road Services will be represented by six contestants, Pease Transport, Ltd., and the Crow Carrying Co., Ltd., by five each, and R.E.M.E., Southern Forge, Ltd., Beecham Foods, Ltd., Express Dairy Co., Ltd., and T. Wall and Sons, Ltd., by four each.
There will be an observed road section from the starting point on the Slough Trading Estate to Hawker's airfield at Langley, where the manceuvring tests will take place.
The locally devised test will be unusual. It will be to drive forward and park by an off-side kerb. A reverse movement to a line is then performed, and forward again to park by the kerb on the near side. The object will be to place the vehicle an equal distance from the kerb on each occasion and from the line.
A prize will be presented by the Traders' Road Transport Association for the best-kept C-licence vehicle.
TIGER CUBS TO BEAT TAXIS
A NUMBER of petrol buses operated 1-1. by the Arima Bus Service,-Trinidad, is to be replaced by Leyland Tiger Cubs, some of which in current service return 17-18 m.p.g. with an average of five stops per mile. Tiger Cubs to be supplied after this year will have PneumoCyclic gearboxes.
Bus operators in Trinidad compete keenly with low-priced taxi services. The largest bus operators are Trinidad Bus Services, who have 16 Tiger Cubs and have ordered a further 20.