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LATEST NEWS FROM THE TRAFFIC AREAS

18th November 1932
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YORKSHIRE FARES DISCUSSION.

RECOMMENDATIONS with regard to fares in Yorkshire were submitted to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners last Friday, by a deputation from the Yorkshire Regional Fares Committee.

The effect of the increased price of petrol on operating costs was the chief point dealt with, and it was recommended that, before there is any general increase in fares, efforts be made to avoid this by pruning special facilities. The committee also recommended that, instead of the present general half-fare for children, this shall be restricted to stage-carriage services, and that on express services and excursions and tours, the fare for children shall be raised to two-thirds of the ordinary fare. This proposal met with opposition, it being said that over 200 independent operators in Yorkshire wished the present general half-fare for children to be maintained.

The Commissioners said that they would consider the recommendations and give their decision later.

Incidentally, the Yorkshire Commissioners have approved a scale of special bus fares, recommended by the regional committee, for children attending West Riding County Council schools.

ANOTHER NORTHERN MERGER.

WE understand that Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., has acquired the business and assets of the Workington Motor Services Co., which concern has been engaged in excursions and private-hire work.

WHEN INTERIOR ILLUMINATION IS NECESSARY.

A N interesting case came before the Blackpool magistrates last Friday, when Mr. H. Faulkner and Mr. G. Newton, toth of Blackpool, were summoned for using public-service vehicles without internal illumination. It had previously been held by the defence that the vehicles had movable heads, which did not come within the regulations, but, later, the plea was altered, another regulation having been discovered defining a permanent top.

This appears to be one that cannot readily be folded back, so that no portion remains vertically above any part of any seat of the vehicle, but the machines in question had fixed portions. The magistrates dismissed both summonses on payment of costs.

LUTON TO SEEK "CONSENT." ON December 1, the East Midland Traffic Commissioners will hold an inquiry at the Police Court, Luton, to hear applications by Luton Corporation for permission to run public .sersiee

vehicles outside its boundaries. The services concerned are those, as already reported in The Commercial Motor, to be purchased from three local companies, and cover seven routes.

MORE BUSES FOR TRAMS. LAST Sunday, Manchester Corpora tion substituted buses for trains on the Manchester-Rochdale route, and the express-bus service between the two towns was discontinued.

TROLLEY-BUSES FOR SALFORD?

SALFORD Corporation has included a

clause in the new Corporation Bill to obtain powers to run trolley-buses on all or any of the tram routes (whether inside or outside the city), the abandonment of all or any of the trains and the authorization of additional trolleybus routes.

CHELTENHAM BUS REVIEW. THE Western Traffic Commissioners have intimated that they propose to review the whole of the bus services in Cheltenham.

COACH STATION FOR EALING.

EALING Corporation has passed plans

submitted by the C. and S. Construction Co., for the erection of a coach station and repair works in Craven for Ealing Coaches, Ltd.

WITNESSES RECALLED ON APPEAL.

A PROCEDURE never before adopted at appeals in Yorkshire was carried out, last week, at Leeds when witnesses who had given evidence at licence applications, were recalled. Lancashire and Yorkshire Motors, Ltd., of Shafton, near Barnsley, appealed against the reduction by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners of the frequency of its BarnsleyGrimsthorpe service, and the United Services, of Barnsley, made a similar appeal. They both also appealed against decisions granting licences for the route to the Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd.

It was submitted that the appellants' service had been drastically reduced, to the advantage of the Yorkshire Traction Co., but it was denied by this concern that it had been treated more generously than anyone else.

Our correspondent was informed that the result of the appeals was of vital importance to independent owners in the Barnsley area.

A meeting of " independents" in this district, decided to emphasize to the Commissioners that no agreement has been reached with the Yorkshire Traction Co.

COUNCIL TO APPEAL.

AN appeal is to be'.!inade by Christ church Borough Council against the Southern Traffic Commissioners' decision not to reduce the fare of Hants and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., from the Town Hall to Sea Corner, Highcliff e.

150-PER-CENT. INCREASE IN SOUTHEND'S MILEAGE.

SOUTFFEND Corporation's transport

manager, Mr. R. A. Fearnley, A.M.I.A.E., M.Inst.T., points out that references in the Press (not The Commercial Motor) to an increase of 150 per cent. in the mileage of the municipal troliey-buses are inaccurate, as the figure relates to motorbuses and trains, as well as to trolley-buses.

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