FORTHCOMING EVENTS BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS
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Northern Scotland.
FEW notices of objection appear in the Commissioners' list of applications to be dealt with at Aberdeen next week (March 8th and 9th). First, a great many stage-service applications are to be heard, and it is probable that Wednesday will be mainly occupied by backing applications for groups of ex cursions and tours. Many of these tours are from terminal points in England.
Southern Scotland.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for a sitting at Glasgow next week, when a number of stage-service applications and backings for tour licences are to be dealt with. The contentious cases, which relate to independent concerns, are being handled first, most of the imposition being by the L.M.S. and L.N.E. railway companies. Applications for the variation of licence conditions are listed in a group which is not likely to come up for hearing until March 9th.
On the following day Glasgow Corporation's application to vary bus fares will be taken, as well as the corporation's application under Part V of the Road Traffic Act for consent to operate outside the municipal boundary.
Northern.
THE Commissioners have arranged to • hold two public inquiries under Part V of the Road Traffic Act. Tomorrow an application by Newcastle _Corporation for consent to extend its present Newcastle-Cramlington bus seryice from High Pit to Blyth will be heard at the County Court, Westgate Road, Newcastle. On the following day the application by Sunderland Corporation for consent to operate buses outside the municipal area will be considered at the Town Hall, Sunderland. Dates are now given for sittings up to March 29th.
Yorkshire.
DIFFICULT cases in large numbers
are listed for the Sheffield hearing, arranged for next Tuesday. Numerous applications by independent coach operators desiring to run excursions and tours
this summer are meeting with persistent opposition by the railway concerns .and one or two railway-associated road companies. -It is difficult to see how the railways can produce effective arguments against all of these applicants. Generally speaking, the matter was thrashed out last year, and the desirability of the services was then established.
West Midland.
THE latest gazette gives a list of . applications to be heard at the Coventry sitting opening next Monday. On that day only excursion and tours will receive attention, there being a certain amount of opposition by the "Midland Red," Birmingham Corporation, L.M.S. Railway and other undertakings. On the following day miscellaneous applications will be beard, and the L.M.S. Railway Co. will oppose a number of applications for long-distance coach services.
A sitting has been arranged for Worcester on March 10th, when several excursion applications will meet with opposition.
East Midland.
DETAILS of applications listed for hearing at to-day's sitting at Nottingham were published in gazette 40, which was dealt "with in our issue for last week.
Eastern.
OF the eases listed by the Eastern Commissioners for hearing at Cambridge next Tuesday, the application of the Victory Omnibus Co., Ltd., for a licence covering a new stage service between Brentwood and Stratford Broadway is interesting, it being opposed by Hillman's Saloon Coaahes, the L.G.O.Co., Ltd., the L.N.E. Railway Co., and Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Services, Ltd. The railways are opposing at this sitting several new applications. and these are, so far as possible, being dealt with first.
It is surprising to note that quite a number of new services is coming up for consideration. Many proposals for new services in 1931, of course, were not proceeded with. . South Wales.
TO-MORROW and Thursday Th y the -South Wales Commissioners *ill hold a sitting at Swansea to deal with a
• number of stage services, many of which are for workmen: There Will be little difficulty with these applications, despite the fact that several operators are asking for modified licences.
At Pontypridd next Monday a Sitting will open at which a lotwork Must be got through, a number of Municipal oPerators being the firit to be 'heard.
Southern.
MAINLY excursion and.tours, as well as seasonal express services, will he dealt with by the Southern Commissioners at the March 7th sitting at Reading. The Southern Railway Co. is opposing several of the services from towns like Reading to the coast. The interesting case of Mr. R. Pearson's application for a new express service between Liverpool and Eastbourne will be dealt with, and opposition is entered by the Thames Valley Traction Co., Ltd.
South Eastern. THE full list of applications that are .being heard at to-day's sitting is published too late this week for inclu
sion in our issue. As regards next week's Brighton sitting, on March 10th applications by Elliott Brothers (Bournemouth), Ltd., the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd. and Southdown Motor Services, Lid., which were adjourned from the sitting that opened on February 8th, will be taken.
Metropolitan.
EXCURSIONS and tours will almost
exclusively engage the Commissioner throughout next Wednesday, and the following day will be devoted to longdistance express services.
On March 11th applications by Green Line Coaches, Ltd., for services between London and Guildford, Hertford, Ongar and High Wycombe will be heard. These applications have been made in consequence of the company acquiring the businesses of operators hitherto engaged on the routes,