LIVERPOOL v. RIBBLE NEXT WEEK
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BOOTLE Corporation is to make .1-/representations to the NorthWestern Traffic Commissioners with regard to the applications by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and Liverpool Corporation for licences to run services between Liverpool and Bootle. The cases come up next week,.
The transport committee has recommended that, in view of the history of the services in question, the successful applicant should be required to give an undertaking that Bootle Corporation should have an opportunity of considering the withdrawal or modifica tion, to any great extent, of any of the services, before the matter was placed before the Commissioners.
It is also urged that one particular route, if granted to Liverpool Corporation, should be operated on Sundays: that anOther route, if granted to the " Ribble," should be worked as at present on Saturdays after midday: and that double-deckers should be run on four other services, at peak periods at least.
The bearing is to take place at Liverpool on July 29 and 30. It is understood that Sir Walter Monckton, K.C., has been briefed for Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.
BRICKBATS ON "FIRST NIGHT."
ALTHOUGH introduced only recently to succeed the trams in Dunfermline, the buses have already been subject to hostile criticism, particularly with regard to the alleged inadequacy of the services and anomalies in fares.
At a meeting of Dunfermline Town Council, last week, the allegation was made that W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., was not fulfilling its agreement in connection with the services to Town
hill. Protests were also made against fares charged on the Halbeath and Rosyth routes.
It was stated that previously a measure of protection was granted the trams by an increase in bus fares, but LOW that the trams had ceased operating, the bus fares should be lowered to the standard tram charges.
At a meeting between Dunfermline magistrates and representatives of the bus company, on Friday, suggested improvements in the bus services were discussed. The various proposals are to be considered by the operator.
A SPECULATIVE BUSINESS.
ALTHOUGH the bus industry is profitable, its risks are sometimes lost sight of, said Mr. Sidney E. Garcke, chairman of the Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd., at the company's annual general meeting, last Friday.
He stressed the fact that the business was responsive to trade depression, and that when revenue sank below the cost line it could not be adjusted quickly, if at all. Moreover, he said, many of the working costs were outside the control of the directors,