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Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport

22nd June 1940, Page 32
22nd June 1940
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CHANGE IN AGE-LIMIT FOR CONDUCTORS?

IN reply to a suggestion that, in view of the war-time shortage of conductors for public-service vehicles, the minimum age limit for conductors should be altered, the Minister of Transport has asked for more definite particulars as to the extent and location of the shortage. Any alteration of the minimum age limit would be a matter of some importance on which the Minister would consider it desirable to obtain the view of the appropriate organizations representing labour, states the reply.

DEFENCE MEASURES WITH DESTINATION BOARDS

I N the interests of home security, the Government has decided that all references to camps, aerodromes or other Service establishments should be deleted from destination indicators and from boards on public-service vehicles showing intermediate points on routes. Only the word or words indicating the presence of such establishments must be deleted.

WOLVERHAMPTON'S BUSES £10,000 FOR RATES RELIEF

IN the year ended March 31, 1940, the gross surplus on the trolleybus account of Wolverhampton Corporation was £85,554, whilst on the motorbus account it amounted to £25,896. After debiting interest on capital, repayment of loans, income tax and certain other items, the net surplus came out at £15,220, of which £10,000 has been applied to the relief of rates. The remaining amount has been transferred to the reserve fund.

In the year under review, the trolleybuses earned an income of £300,794, whilst working expenses totalled £213,555. The trolleybuses covered an aggregate mileage of 4,391,891 and' carried 51,140,217 passengers.

In the case of motorbuses, income totalled £107,728 and working expenses £79,081, the mileage covered by these vehicles being 1,666,347; the number of passengers carried was 12,836.140. At the end of the year under review, the corporation was operating 125 trolleybuses and 66 motorbuses. They were working on 220 miles of route and serving a population of approximately 365,000.

SPECIAL FACILITIES FOR MEN IN THE FORCES AT West Hartlepool, the town council has agreed to support a move by Newcastle-on-Tyne City Council to secure a Government grant for special travelling facilities for men serving in the Forces. The matter is to be brought before the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, through the Northern Area Committee.

BUSES HAVE GOOD SHARE OF CARDIFF PROFIT

A PRELIMINARY report of Cardiff

Corporation, in respect of the working of the passenger-transport undertaking for the year ended March 31 last, shows that buses were responsible for £14,852 of a total net profit of £25,544. The aggregate mileage covered by the buses was 4,207,410, the net revenue per bus-mile amounting to 2.56d.

GOOD BUS SURPLUS AT LEICESTER

DURING the year ended March 31 last, Leicester Corporation made a net surphis of £6,169 on the operation of its buses, that on the trams amount ing to £481. The total surplus of £6,650 compared with £4,249 in the previous year. Passenger receipts from buses totalled £186,935, and these vehicles carried 30,450,982 people. Working expenses on the buses totalled £168,775.

NO OPPOSITION TO NEWCASTLE'S ORDER

MO objections were raised to the Pro 11 visional Order of Newcastle Corporation in connection with the operation of trolleybuses, and it was approved by the House of Commons Unopposed Bills Committee, last week. The corporation has given an undertaking that any work in connection with the enterprise will not be carried out during the war, without Government permission.

JOINT COUNCIL FOR COMPANY BUSMEN

THE first meeting of the Joint

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Council for the company section of the bus industry of England and Wales was held on Friday of last week, when Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour, and Mr. F. W. Leggett,

Chief Industrial Commissioner, attended and welcomed the formation of the Council. Mr. R. J. Howley was elected chairman and Mr. John March. banks, vice-chairman. The joint secretaries are Mr. Harold Clay and yr. W. E. Bennett.

Membership of the Council consists of 32 representatives equally divided beween the company and the union interests. Many problems will be covered by the work of the Council. A similar Council for the municipal bus industry has been in operation for a number of years.

. WOLVERHAMPTON BUYING MORE TROLLEYBUSES

WOLVERHAMPTON was one of the W first municipalities in this country to replace its tramways system by trolleybuses. It has progressively extended its trolleybus routes to all parts of the borough, and now operates a large fleet. Among the SunbeamBTII trolleybuses included in Wolverhampton's fleet are double-deck vehicles of both four and six-wheeled types, and a number of four-wheeled single-deckers. The corporation has now placed a, further order with Sunbeam' Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., for 10 Sunbeam-BTH chassis of the M.F.2 four-wheeled type: This is the 12th repeat order that the municipality has placed with the Sunbeam company.

CARDIFF'S., TROLLEYBUS ORDER GOES FORWARD

I N the House of Commons, last week, the Unopposed Bills Committee approved the Cardiff Corporation Trolley Vehicles Provisional Order. Ministry of Transport representatives stated that there were nine objections to the proposal to run trolleybuses along Llandaff Green route, but all but one of them had been met by the withdrawal of the proposal. The remaining objection concerned the operation of petrol buses along another route, but this was held to be• frivolous.


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