Bus Concessions on Terms
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TIPULATIONS in the new conk–) cessions to Cairo bus operators include the duty to buy a number of new vehicles, not to use any over six years old, and to reduce fares even
tually by 20-25 per cent. Contracts were recently awarded for the operation of 31 routes, and the companies have a monopoly on their contractual services for 10 years.
Facilities in the city have deteriorated greatly since 1947, when concessions expired. These have been renewed only for short terms while the Egyptian Government evolved a stable transport policy. Operators were, therefore, unwilling to invest in new buses when the duration of their concessions was uncertain.
The award of the new contracts has given rise to substantial orders for buses from abroad, states a Board of Trade report, but after six years of unprofitable working, none of the new concessionnaires has the ready money to buy them. Orders are, therefore, naturally being gained by the exporters offering the best credit terms.
REES JEFFREYS STUDENTSHIP A PPLICATIONS are invited for the fifth Rees Jeffreys studentship, tenable at the London School of Economics, Hough4m Street, London, W.C.2, to enable a suitable candidate to conduct at least a year's full-time research into transport economics.
The studentship is not confined to university graduates, but is open to anyone who has been engaged in transport administration or the production of transport equipment. The value of the award will be at least .£250 and the studentship will be tenable as from October 1, 1953, for 12 months. Applications must be received not later than September I.
The object of the grant is to promote research " into economics and means of transport with a view to securing the A30 balanced development of the various forms of transport and the progressive lowering of charges." Any research scheme likely to further this project will receive consideration.
REMOVAL OF BAN
IT is expected that . Parliament will I shortly approve a Ministry of Transport Order lifting a ban on the operation of buses by Hartlepool Corporation between Hartlepool and West Hartlepool. The corporation, who have no transport undertaking, are expected to hire vehicles to work the route.