56 of 76 Services Lose Money
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CIFTY-SIX of the 76 services of W. I Alexander and Sons, Ltd., in northern Scotland, lose money. Losses totalled £62,000 in 1953 and £68,000 in 1954. Passengers. carried on the Aberdeen-Banff-Inverness route last year were 500,000 fewer than in 1953, increasing the loss from £1,738 to £3.631.
These facts were given to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week when the concern applied to reduce their services in north-east Scotland. The Authority allowed a cutting-down of Aberdeen-Inverness services via Huntly, but reserved decision upon the service via Banff.
Representatives of local authorities spoke of the inconvenience that reduced services would cause. Mr. A. Simpson, Turriff's town clerk, said: "A monopoly service must have a higher duty to the public than merely to run services for profit."
TYRE COSTS RISE TYRES for Hull Corporation buses ' will cost an extra £2,580 yearly after 1956, the general manager of the transport department told the transport committee last Friday. Intimation had been received, he said, that the rate under the corporation's tyre-mileage contract would be increased by 0.51d. a mile from this month, and there would be a further increase of 121 per cent, next year.
Huddersfield Transport Department has protested through the Municipal Passenger Transport Association to the Monopolies Commission about an alleged price ring in the tyre trade. Cfir. A. T. K. Sykes, a member of the committee, said that prices were asked for, but the tenders were all the same.
" It-is a price ring and a monopoly," he stated. The monopoly would build up the corporation's tyre bill by £600 to £700 next year.
ATKINSON CHANGE NAME
AS from today, the name of Atkinson Lorries (1933), Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Atkinson Lorries (Holdings), Ltd.,. will be changed to Atkinson Vehicles, Ltd.
Since January 1, orders for new vehicles, many of them repeats, have been received to the value of upwards of £500,000. About a third of the vehicles are for export, including to South Africa, Australia, Spain, Portugal and Turkey.
BACK AT COVENT GARDEN
HAULIERS running into Covent Garden Market, London, resumed normal working on Tuesday after agreement had been reached on a pay dispute involving the market's tenants' association and their employees. The hauliers, members of the Road Haulage Association, withdrew their vehicles from the market last week because of the financial loss caused by the strike,