"Prune Services to Save Fuel
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wi-itt.E. the country's economic posiW tion remained as it was, the Licensing Authority would prefer a reduction of services to increases in fares, said Lieut.-Col. Gordon Tucker, South-Eastern Licensing Authority, at Tunbridge Wells. Granting an application by Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., to reduce services in the Tunbridge Wells area, he remarked: " We • are satisfied that people are travelling less."
Referring then to the serious economic situation in this country, he said that the consumption of liquid fuel muse not be disregarded. "I have been seriously considering," he continued, "whether it was not my duty to circulate all bus operators asking them to prune their services wherever they could, with the idea of avoiding unnecessary expenditure." They would thus avoid the necessity of applying for increases in fares.
DOGS DISCOURAGE PILFERING "-, ECAUSE of the difficulty of obtaining van boys, the Carter Paterson unit of British Road Services is using specially trained dogs to counter pilfering. Six dogs are already at work, and more are being trained as quickly as possible. Two minor attempts to interfere with packages in the rear of vehicles carrying van dogs are reported, both of which failed.
TRANSFERS DROP TO FOUR
ONLY four road haulage businesses were acquired by the Road Haulage Executive between September II and September 17. There were: 1VIcKinnell and Co., Ltd., St. Helens; Lowe and Coxhead, Chorley; G. F. Phillips and Sons, Ltd., Sheffield, 2; R. Hill and Co. (Newcastle), Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne.