MINISTER TO BREAK CONFIDENCE?
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LAST week, a deputation from the C.M.U.A. urged the Minister of Transport not to make public the statistical information required to be supplied by individual public lervice vehicle operators, under Section 75 of the 1930 Act. At present, the confidential details supplied by operators are published only in a general form in the Traffic Commissioners' Annual Reports.
The deputation was received by officials of the Ministry, and consisted of Messrs. F. G. Bristow, general secretary of the C.M.1LT.A.; E. V. Ralph; chairman of the National Passenger Committee; H. Allen, chairman of. the. North-Western Area Passengec Committee; R. W. Birch; F. J. Speiglit, chairman of the London and Home Counties Divisional atssenger Committee; and F. A. Walker.
It was submitted that the Minister's proposal to publish the returns of individual operators was without precedent and most undesirable, There was, added the deputation, no statutory provision for the publication of such information, and Parliament had not intended that it should be made public, except in a general way.
Any information required by the Traffic Commissioners, it was pointed out, could be obtained from individual operators or from the Ministry through the medium of the existing channels.
RADIO ON NEW GREEN LINE COACHES.
THE complete fleet of 24 Green Line coaches shortly to be put into service by London Transport will be equipped with radio. The vdrious notices which appear inside each coach are, printed in English. French and German.