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£69,380 Increase: More Bids

20th January 1956
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

L'ARE increases designed to bring in 1 an extra £69,380 a year were last week granted to Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd., by the Northern Licensing Authority. It was stated that operating costs had risen by £87,255 a .■ ear, hut the company were absorbing the balance by various economies.

Mr. J. L. R. Croft, for the applicants, said that roost of the major operators in the Northern Area had had to approach the Authority for higher fares in 1954. His clients had not made an increeve since May, 1953.

Giving his decision, the chairman, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, said the principle was now established by law that a company of that nature must he operated in accordance with normal commercial practices and not kept on "a tine edge." so that estimates had to be kept down to within 0.1 per cent.

It was a reasonable case and he advised that in any future application, fares should be reviewed on a mileage basis in accordance with modern practice.

More operators have submitted applications for higher fares. • They include Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd,. and their subsidiary, Hastings Tramways' Co.; Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., and their trolley bus associate, South Lancashire Transport Co.: East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd.; Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd.; Hebble Motor Services, Ltd., and the undertakings of Accrington, Leicester, Widnes and Rotherham.

Glasgow Transport Committee, who deferred raising fares on January 1 because of further increases in costs, have now submitted • fresh proposals which, if approved-, would bring hi an extra £464.900 a year. A 2+d. minimum is among them: Even so, the undertaking will have a deficit of £150,000 at the end of the 1956-57 financial year.

After reducing the general manager's fare proposals from £300,000 to about £275,000, Liverpool' Transport Committee last week recommended the city council.to apply for higher rates.

_Belfast Corporation are to seek powers to repeal sections of the Tramways Act, 1904, which provide for cheap fares for workers.

Reports on fare revisions have been called for by Middlesbrough, Bury arid Stockton-on-Tees councils.

The " vigilance committee," appointed last year by local councils in the north-east to consider increases in bus fares in the future, have set up a sub-committee to investigate the latest applications of the Northern General Transport Co., • Ltd., and their associated companies.

Seventeen councils are objecting to the higher rates being sought by the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., whose application is to be heard by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, in Leeds, on February 8.

The Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., will have 33 councils opposing their application at Barnsley on February 14.


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