MIDLAND RED WANTS TO INCREASE FARES
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MIDLAND RED—needing £1 m. extra in the next 12 months to absorb the recent pay awards is to ask the West Midland Traffic Commissioners early next month to approve fare increases of between Id. and 6d.
If approved, the increases will be introduced when the company begins to pay the wage rises—from July.
COACH RALLY DATE
The British Coach Rally during the week-end of April 15/16 starts and finishes at Brighton. Initial driving tests will be held on the Madeira Drive after the road section. Final driving tests will take place on Sunday afternoon when the "Coach Driver of the Year" will be established. The concours d'Elegance will also be on the Sunday.
White-collar No: Newcastle-on-Tyne transport committee says it would be too expensive to allow its clerical workers the same travel concessions as platform staff and bus inspectors. The cost? £12,000.