LONDON BILL BLOCKED BY A.R.O.
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DEPUTIZING for Mr. A. H. Bourne (chairman), who was indisposed, Mr. S. D. Oddy, hon. secretary of Croydon and District Motor Coach Owners Association, announced, at the fourth annual dinner on Monday, that A.R.O., to which the Croydon body is affiliated, had succeeded in blocking, in the House of Commons, a Bill promoted by London Transport. We understand that the Association hopes to obtain important rulings regarding the granting of consents.
Mr. Oddy hoped that relations' between independent operators and the Board would be more amicable than in the past. He also hoped that, in the future, it would not be necessary for members of the Association to oppose each other in the traffic courts, thus playing into the hands of the combines. In, urging the remission of the emergency tax on petrol, he pointed out that taxation represented about 25 per cent. of operating costs.
Mr. Herbert G. Williams, M.P., expressed disapproval of monopolies. Other speakers were Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson (Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner), Major J. B. Elliott (chairman of A.R.0.), Mr. F. A. Flin and Mr. W. E. Penfold.
MORE BUSES—BECAUSE TRAINS • ARE LATE!
THE notorious late arrival of excursion trains on return journeys was a reason put forward by a witness on behalf of Manchester Corporation, during an application for late Sunday buses (also increased frequency on Sundays) on the Manchester-Altrincham route. The application was granted. An appeal against the grant of certain other applications for this route was stated to be under consideration by the railways.
Figures produced showed that, since the Manchester-Altrincham rail electrification, receipts had gone up by 28 per cent. to £157,642, whilst the bus increase was by 4.78 per cent. to £110,320.
BID FOR MORE BUS POWERS. DOWERS to run trolleybuses on a 1 further route, to extend the authority which the company already has to operate motorbuses and to provide for the sub-division of shares, are being sought by the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Traction Co., in the House of Lords.
A Select Committee of the House has ordered the company's Bill for report and third reading. The section which enables the company to apply for motorbus licences is being opposed by the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd.
£7,575 FOR KEIGHLEY RATES.
KEIGHLEY Town Council has approved estimates for a general district rate, which includes a grant-in-aid of £7,575 . from Keighley-West Yorkshire Services, Ltd. This figure compares with £6,264 last year, and is equal to approximately 9d. in the £. E40 I