Inquiry into Bus Station Charges
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A N inquiry to settle the annual con tributions of bus operators to the cost of running Halifax Transport Department's bus station at Cross Field, Halifax, was held at Leeds by Maj. F. S. Eastwood on behalf of the Minister of Transport. At the close of the inquiry, Maj. Eastwood said he would report to the Minister.
Mr. T. E. Brown, deputy town cleric af Halifax, said Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd., and Hebble Motor Services, Ltd.. occupied 6 of the 30 stands at the station. The corporation had considered fixing charges on the basis of stands occupied. but the companies refused this proposal and iuggested charges based on time-table departures.
Later, the corporation decided to charge half the net expenditure on the basis of departures and half on the basis of stands occupied, but the companies refused.
Mr. J. Hollas, of the Halifax Treasurer's Department. said that in estimates for 1956-57. Yorkshire Woollen would have paid £764 and Hebble £874 under the corporation's stand and departure scheme. Under the companies' departure-only basis the amounts would have been £556 and £778, respectively.
For the objectors, Mr. W. R Hargrave said that in the absence of an agreement freely arrived at between the parties. precedent supported charges based on time-table departures.
Mr. F. K. Pointon. Hebble's general manager, said he thought the corporation's proposal was unreasonable and that the operators shouldpay "on 3 basis of use of the station."
FORD HAVE OWN X-RAY OUTFTI
A MOBILE X-ray vehicle has been F-L put into service by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., for the mass radiography of some 25,000 employees at regular intervals. The Pitchers body is mounted on a Thames 5-ton chassis with a Baico 3-ft, 9-in. extension.
There are two interior compartments People may be photographed in one, and films processed and checked in the other. The vehicle cost £7,500, and is believed to be the first X-ray outfi' to be privately owned by a British concern "RESTRICT BULK SALES" MO fleet operator should be allowed 11 to buy liquid fuel at bulk price unless consumption exceeds 750 gallons in six months. This recommendation has been Made by a Royal Commission which has advised the Government of Western Australia on problems of fuel distribution. Garage owners in the State are said to be aggrieved about the sale of fuel at concession rates to bulk
Users.
The Commission also recommend measures against restrictions on the sale of lubricating oils from garages.
15s. a Ton Insufficient
Lr would be impossible for the appli cant to defray his running expenses service his vehicle and show a profit at the rate of 15s. a ton, it was stated on behalf of Messrs. Fennell Bros., Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, when the -objected to an application to the York shire Deputy Licensing Authority last week by Mr. L. A. Whitehead. Green Hammenon.
Mr. Whitehead sought a B licence foi
vehicle of 21 tons unladen weight. and told the Authority that he was a farm labourer and in his spare time in the evenings and on Saturday afternoons delivered bagged coal for the Green Hammerton stationmaster under a short-term B licence.
The original hearing in July was adjourned so that the applicant could produce figures of earnings. The Authority rejected the application, saying that the probable reason why Mr. Whitehead was employed was because the vehicle was entirely at the customer's disposal without overheads The objectors were doing similar work in the district, and if the application were granted there would be an excess of transport ENGINEERS' GUILD LINK WITH THE B.T.C.
THE British Transport Connmissiol, have undertaken to discuss informally at any time with representatives of the Engineers' Guild any matter concerning the professional status and othet interests of chartered engineers. The channel of communication which has been established will not affect the present machinery of negotiation. but the Gufld are confident that the opportunity to present the views of professional engineering staff will be of mutual yalue.
A quitstionnaire has been sent individually to every member of the Guild in the Commission.