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Some " Suez " Cuts
TWENTY applications. by the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., to retain " Suez " service cuts in the Glossop area were granted by the North Western Traffic Commissioners, last week. Of another 40 applications (The Commercial Motor, June 14), 12 were withdrawn, 11 were granted after amendment, 14 decisions were reserved, two licences were surrendered, and one application is still outstanding.
Main objectors were Glossop Corporation, who described the 30-minute service on the Old Glossop—Hadfield route in the evenings as inadequate. Before the Suez crisis there had been a 20-minute frequency.
Mr. John Green, NorthWestern's traffic manager, claimed thal the halfhour service was adequate, and that the council had been " spoiled " in the past. Census figures showed the public were suffering no real hardships.
The West Midland Traffic Commissioners last Friday reserved decision on an application by the Birmirtgham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., to preserve some service reductions made during the fuel emergency.
Mr. R. Brandon, traffic manager, said that the company did not seek to cut peak-hour frequencies, but to reduce mileage during off-peak periods on unrernunerative services. There was a marked decline in passenger traffic brought about by the increasing use of private transport and the widening popularity of television.
Solihull Town Council objected on the ground that the company should not reduce services in a district with an expanding community.
DEARER LICENCES FOR MOBILE SHOPS?
A RESOLUTION urging that mobile
shops should be licensed in proportion to the rates paid for business premises was carried at the annual conference of the National Union of Retail Confectioners at Southend.
Mr. J. Hepple (Carlisle) said it was obvious from the increasing number of mobile shops operating that they had come to stay, but people conducting their businesses from these vehicles must stand their fair share of the expenditure of the nation.
An amendment to have them "rated at a fixed figure to bring them into line with business premises" was withdrawn, as it was decided that licensing was the best method, and the one on which the Government might be most likely to act. A further amendment to have mobile shops banned from housing estates was defeated.
FOR TRANSPORT STUDENTS
THE new session's classes in transport subjects will start at the City of London College on September 23. They are intended to prepare students for Institute of Transport examinations at graduateship or associate membership stages.