New Move for Joint Bus Working
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A PROPOSAL to form a joint r-1. passenger transport committee in Ramsbottom, Rawtenstall and Haslingden has been reopened by Ramsbottom Urban District Council, whose transport department last year lost £1,204.
Revenue amounted to £49,059 and working expenses to £45,442. The mileage covered was .545,853 and the number of passengers carried, 4.8m. Revenue, working expenses, mileage, and the number of passengers carried were slightly lower than in the previous year.
Negotiations between the three authorities were broken off in 1951 when the parties failed to agree on representation on the proposed committee. They were resumed a year or two ago, but have not yet reached a satisfactory conclusion.
SCOTLAND MAY LOSE TOURISTS r-rFiE condition of roads in Scotland, I particularly in the Highlands, was condemned by a number of coach _operators from all parts of Britain at a Scottish Tourist Board conference in Edinburgh, last week.
Mr. R. Brandon, traffic manager of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., said that unless the roads were improved, coach parties would be forced to go to the Continent. Operators wanted to venture into other areas. Many beautiful stretches of Scotland were inaccessible because the roads were dangerous for modern coaches.
ACTION ON SMOKING LORRIES
AT their meeting last week, Islington Borough Council decided to ask the three local Members of Parliament to press for a clause to deal with pollution by oil-engined vehicles to be included in the Clean Air Bill.
In addition, the council have asked the police to watch for oilengined lorries emitting excessive fumes. Mr. H. Dixon Clark, town clerk, said that long-distance vehicles driving through the borough along Archway Road and Holloway Road were believed to be the chief offenders.
" STANDARDIZE TO THE LIMIT" QTANDARDIZATION of vehicles
should be pursued to the "utmost limit." Each manufacturer should be empowered by law to make chassis to standard dimensions, so that the frames would all be the same size. This would, among other things, assist the development of the plastics body.
These views are expressed by Mr. A. Prentice, tiansport manager of St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Association, in the latest issue of Agenda, published by the Co-operative Press.
He considers that the matter should be taken up at the highest level by the transport associations in collaboration with other trade associations.