Nottingham Abolishes E.M.R.s : B.M.M.O. to Seek Higher Fares
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THE replacement of early-morning return fares by special single fares by Nottingham Transport Department has been approved by the East Midland Licensing Authority. This step is expected to increase revenue by 421,000 a year.
The fares affected are the 7d., 8d., 10d., 11d. and is. returns, and the single fares which will take their place will, with one exception, increase the cost of each return journey by 2d. The exception is the 7d. return, which will be raised by Id.
Despite this increase, the department expects to have a deficit of about £71,000 next year.
Following the recent wage awards, which will cost them £215,000 a year, the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., are to apply for increases in workmen's and miners' return fares. The company gave as one of their reasons for the application, the failure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce fuel tax.
Swindon Council have approved proposed increases in fares which are expected to produce an additional .£13,000 a year. With the exception of the lid. and 2d. fares, all single fares will be increased by id.
Aid. D. P. Story, chairman of the transport committee, told a meeting that the deficit on the undertaking for the current year had been estimated at £9,220, but a recent wage award would raise this by £1,800. There was no further scope for substantial saving, except by reducing the services.
Concessions by Blackpool Transport Department cost the corporation at least £103,440 a year, Mr. W. Luff, the transport manager, has revealed.
Chester City Council have instructed the general manager of the transport department to submit suggestions for a revision of fares following a report that a deficit of £11,000 is expected this year.
Liverpool City Council have rejected a proposal that old age pensioners' freetravel passes, which are at present available between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays, should be available also between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. during the summer.
MR. W. WHITEHEAD has been reelected chairman of the Merseyside and North Wales Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. The vicechairman is MR. A. L. BAGLEY and the honorary treasurer MR. J. E. MOORE.
MR. J. R. Rix, director in charge of research and development of the British Motor Corporation, is ceasing all his business activities and retiring on the advice of his doctors. He joined the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., in 1917 and became technical manager and chief designer in 1947.
MR. A. J. INGHAM, certifying officer of the Ministry of Transport in South Wales, is to move to the Western Traffic Area at Exeter. MR. J. PYLE, at Plymouth, will take up duties at Leeds, in the Yorkshire Traffic Area. Ma. H. MCCAFFERTY, temporarily serving at Leeds, will transfer to the North Western Area at Manchester, and MR. C. G. POPPLEWELL, at present in Manchester, will move to Preston.
SIR GEORGE BEHARRELL, president of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., last week presented a gold badge to the chairman, LORD BATUMI), to mark his 25 years' service as a director. MR. J. H. LORD, a director, has been elected a director of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corporation, Buffalo, U.S.A., of which MR. GLENN H. CRAWFORD, vice-president and comptroller, has been appointed president and treasurer in succession to MR. E. B. GERMAIN, who has retired.
LORD MERRIVALE has been elected chairman of the Institute of Traffic Administration for 1954-55. The vicepresidents are MR. R. P. BOWYER, MR. A. LAWES COLE, MR. L. C. HARRISON, MR. C. J. PARKER, MR. B. R. MILLER and MR. E. H. BURN. The chairman of the national council is MR. F. N. WHITE, and the vice-chairmen MR. T. JACKSON, MR. J. FOLEY EGGINTON and MR. T. H. CAREY. MR. C. R. GRIFFIN is honorary secretary and Mr. Harrison honorary treasurer. MR. R. H. ADDLESEE has been elected chairman of the Birmingham. centre, of which Mr. Bowyer is honorary treasurer and MR. J. S. BURDEN, honorary secretary.
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MR. ROGER THORNYCROFT, director of Transport Equipment (Thornycroft), Ltd., has recently returned from visiting Iraq, Kuwait, Egypt, Kenya and South Africa.
MR. GEORGE BOEX. joint managing director of the British Aluminium Co., is to retire on July 4. He will be succeeded by MR. W. J. THOMAS. Mr. Boex will remain a director, and has agreed to act as a consultant on special matters.
MR. M. J. WRAY has been appointed general manager of Kingsbridge Motors, Bedford dealers, of Kingsbridge, Devon. He joined the Ministry of Transport in 1947 and became chief traffic examiner to the South Wales
Licensing Authority. •
MR. G. AKMSTRONG, general manager of Exeter Transport Department, has been appointed general manager at Son.thampton, where, it is expected, he will take up his duties in August. He will succeed MR. P. J. BAKER, who is retiring. Mr. Armstrong has been at Exeter since 1951.
SHELL-MEX EXECUTIVE • CHANGES
THERE have been certain organizational changes in Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., affecting the executive management of the company. The present structure is as follows:—Mr. C M. Vignoles. managing director: Mr. F. • A. Keeling, controller of accounts: general manager—supplies. Mr. A. J. Foster. administrt lion, Mr. A. L. King. sales, Mr. A. M. Mackintosh. operations, Mr. T. W. Mathias.
Mr. H. Cunliffe, industrial sales manager, and Mr. C. K. Stringer, retail sales manager, are responsible to Mr. Mackintosh.
CAMP APPEAL REFUSED
THE Minister of Transport has rejected with costs an appeal by Messrs. A. Cox and F. W. Sephton. (Godiva Coaches), Coventry. against the West Midland Licensing Authority's refusal to grant them permission to operate a new express service between Church Lawford R.A.F. camp and London.