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Coronation Travel : Operators Warned
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nPERATORS were warned, last
by Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson, MC., LL.D., Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, against running unauthorized services during Coronation week, and were asked to report offenders.
Mr. Robinson, speaking at the fifth annual dinner of Croydon and District Motor Coach Owners Association, paid a tribute to the high level of honesty among operators generally and promised to help them so far as possible in connection with Coronation services. Congestion would, however, he pointed out, be acute.
Capt. W. F. Strickland, M.P., secretary of the Parliamentary Road Group, emphasized the benefits that would accrue in passenger comfort from a slight increase in the maximum legal overall width of vehicles. He added that coach and bus owners afforded a service the railways could never give. Mr. A. H. Bourne, chairman, said that the Association's future policy would be to fight all further restrictions, with the co-operation of other organizations, including, possibly, the R.A.C. and A.A.
Referring to oppression by taxation, Mr. S. D. Oddy, hon. secretary, revealed that on an 80-mile journey, for which the road fare was 5s. 4d., the coach passenger paid 80. in taxation (imperial and local), whereas the revenue contribution by the railways was id. He addedthat taxation accounted for about 25 per cent. of operating costs.
Other speakers were Mr. F. A. Flin and Mr. F. G. Bristow, C.M.U.A. general secretary.
There was a strong contingent present from the C.M.U.A., including Mr. F. A. Walker, Mr. J. L. Kinder, Mr. H. Sweetland and Mr. F. J. Speight.