PEARSONS ACQUIRE IMPERIAL SERVICES
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I T is understood that Messrs. J. Pears son and Sons (Happy Days Motorways), Liverpool, have acquired the services of E. J. Jones (Liverpool and London), Ltd. (Imperial Motor Services), both being well-known independent operators engaged on the Liverpool-London route. Seasonal services from Liverpool to Glasgow and Blackpool are, we learn, also concerned in the deal and the licences have been handed in to the Traffic Commissioners. There is thus now only one independent concern working on the LiverpoolLondon route.
RESTRICTING THE USE OF DOUBLE-DECKERS IN SCOTLAND.
AN unusual position with regard to the use of double-deck buses on Angus roads was revealed at a meeting of the County Road Board, on Monday. The county council opposed an application from a bus company to run doubledeckers on the Montrose-Edzell road (application for other roads having been withdrawn). Mr. R. H. Anderson, the county clerk, said the TraffiC Commissioners had adjourned the case until May and had asked the council whether it had considered making an Order prohibiting the use of certain vehicles on that road.
Mr. Anderson said that if the Commissioners upheld their objection, it would apply only to buses run by the company now making the application and not to contract carriages, so that, unless an Order was" made, a private double-decker could use the road. The meeting agreed to make the Order.
HOURS REVISION COSTS £64,000.
A SUB-COMMITTEE of the conditions of service committee of Glasgow Corporation met, on Monday, to consider the application by the transport employees for a revision of spread-over duties. It was estimated B42
that the application, as presented, would mean an increase of about £64,000 per annum in the cost of operating the system. The sub-committee decided to recommend a partial concession of the demand.
ENGINEER REQUIRED IN SOUTH AFRICA.
A PPLICATIONS are invited by I-1E. W. Caning and Co., Ltd., St. Dunstan's Buildings, St. Dunstan's
London, E.C.3, for the position of transport engineer in the tramways department of Johannesburgh City Council. A salary of £900 per annum, rising to £1,200 per annum, is offered, and applicants must have practical experience and technical knowledge concerning the control and maintenance of workshops, the repair and maintenance of trams, motorbuses and trolleybuses, and other relevant work.
Applicants must be under 45 years of age, and first-class rail fare and passage to Johannesburg will be paid by the council. Applications must be received by E. W. Caning and Co., Ltd., by noon. on March 15.
COMMISSIONERS APPROVE NEW BRIGHTON EXCURSIONS.
'WHEN, at a sitting of the NorthVV Western Traffic Commissioners, numerous applicants from the Manchester area were granted New Brighton as an additional destination, the chairman commented that the difficulty in the past of crossing the river by boat had prevented many coach operators from requiring New Brighton as a destination.
This circumstance had been altered by the opening of the Mersey Tunnel, and the Commissioners were willing to allow this destination to any operator, provided that it was understood that excursions to New Brighton would not permit passengers to be picked up or set down in Liverpool.
U.A.S. CONTRACT APPLICATIONS GRANIED.
A PPLICATIONS made in September tAby United Automobile Services, Ltd., were referred to, on Tuesday (February 19), at a sitting of the Northern Traffic Commissioners, when Sir John Maxwell, the chairman, announced the decision. It was proposed to withdraw the 3d, ticket, also the two-monthly and 12-monthly tickets in respect of which contracts are issued, based on single fares. The cost of monthly tickets was not to be increased, but the company would calculate charges for three and six monthly tickets by a multiplication of the monthly rate, less 15 per cent. and 20 per cent. respectively.
The chairman stated that the effect of the changes on existing contract • holders had been ascertained. It had been decided to grant increases for three and six-monthly tickets, whilst a basis of calculation would be requised to be submitted regarding the two and 12-monthly tickets. The approved basis would also apply to the 3d. ticket,
"WESTERN WELSH" OFFER TO NEWPORT
MEWPORT (Mon.) Town Countil is 1 to consider at its next meeting an offer by the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., Cardiff, to purchase the municipal bus and tramways undertaking, at a price to be agreed. It is understood that there is little likelihood of the council deciding to sell.
The corporation intends to replace the trams by buses, so that, in due course, the undertaking will be operated wholly by motorbuses and trolleybuses. The abandonment of the tramways has, however, been deferred for a year.
During recent .years, the municipaltransport system has been operated at a loss, but this fact is attributed to the need for special expenditure and to acute industrial depression, which now shows signs of lifting. In the year ended March 31 last, the trams operated at a total profit of £11,821, but this figure was converted into a deficit of £10,5l2 by loan and sinking-fund charges amounting to £22,333.
The bus income exceeded the working expenditure by £4,628, but loan and sinking-fund charges of £10,875 and a charge of £2,466 in connection with the superseded tramways reduced the profit to a deficit of £8,713. During the .first nine Months of the current year, an increase in the revenue has been recorded.
RESTRICTIONS ON EXCURSIONS HARM MANUFACTURERS.
I F restrictions on coach excursions became widespread, the motor-manufacturing industry would suffer and the trade might be reduced only to replacements, renewals and repairs, said Mr. A. Masser, when appearing before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners on Tuesday, in support of an application by Messrs. Anderton Brothers, of Keighley.
Referring to the railway opposition to the application, Mr. Masser said: " The attitude of the railway companies in Traffic Commissioners' courts is nothing but obstruction." He submitted that when the railway companies objected to applications by road operators, they slid not give evidence to show when and how the public could travel by rail, instead of by road.
"1 .advise you to study the railway time-table and see how people return to Keighley from Manchester after 9.30 p.m." said Mr. Masser.
" They may reach Leeds at about 2.30 a.m., but how they are to get from Leeds to Keighley, I do not suppose the railways know or care."
The Commissioners reserved their decision.
M.H.C.S.A. LEADERS RE-ELECTED.
AT a meeting of the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, on Tuesday, Major 3. B. Elliott was unanimously re-elected chairman and Mr. F. A. Flin and Councillor C. Thomas, vice-chairmen.