B.R.S. Drops Sim. and 4m. Tons
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IN the first 48 weeks of this year, 1 British Road Services has lost £1m. of revenue, compared with the corresponding period of last year. Traffic in the first 44 weeks of the year has dropped by 4m. tons and mileage has declined by 45.3m.
The aggregate for the 48 weeks ended November 30 this year was £70.7in., compared with £71.8m. last year. Tonnage carried in the first 44 Weeks of this year amounted to 35.7m., contrasted with 39.7m. in the corresponding Period of 1951. Mileage fell from 647.9m. to 602.6m.
Revenue in the four weeks ended November 30 last totalled £6.1m., against £6.5m. in the comparable period of 1951.
Receipts from the provincial and Scottish road passenger transport concerns of the British Transport Commission continue Well above last year's. level. in the four-week period they amounted to £3.2m. (£2.9m. last year) and in the 48-week period to £44.2m. (£40.2m. last year). London Transport's story is similar. Revenue in the four weeks to November 30 was 15.im. (£4.5m. in 1951) arid in the 48 weeks, 1:61.5m. (£54.8ro.).
R.H.E. TO PAY E512,331
COMPENSATION agreements
'between the Road Haulage Executive and 11 hauliers, totalling £512,331, were confirmed by the Transport Arbitration Tribunal in London on Tuesday. The hauliers concerned were:— Slater Bros. (Brigg), Ltd., £21,500; 1'. Bates and Son (Hauliers), Ltd., £34,750; J. Smith and Co. (Transport), Ltd., £40,250; T. Geldeard (Transport), Ltd., £22,481; Sunderland and Sons (Kings Langley), Ltd., £48,000; Ralph Gee and Sons, Ltd., £102,000; S. Maeer and Sons (Knottingicy), Ltd., £25,000; L. W. Clayton, Ltd., £35,000; Maddens Road Service, Ltd., £32,500; John Thomas (Forwarding), Ltd., £20,850; J. A. Webster and Co., Ltd.. £130,000.
AMALGAMATION TO BE
• DISCUSSED
AN approach to Cleethorpes Council,
• with a view to amalgamating the Grimsby and aeethorpes transport undertakings, is to be discussed at the next meeting of Grimsby Transport
CDITM1 i t tee Estimated receipts for Grimsby Transport Department in the seven months ended October 31 were £138,260, or £3,271 more than in the corresponding period for 1951.
GOVERNMENT RESPECTS R.H.A.
KTEVER had any Government treated a transport organization with greater respect than the present Administration regarded the Road Haulage Association, said Mr. F. Rudman. chairman of the North-Western (E.) Area of the R.H.A., at its annual dinner last Friday. He added that it was the national chairman. Mr. R. Winterbottom, a Lancashire man, who hail established the position.