NO -LONG-DISTANCE" BUSES FOR WORKERS
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ON an application .fOr reconsideration of their previous decision regardingthe transport of workers from one area•
to another, the South Wales Traffic: Commissioners have refused to allow Mr. Leslie Harris, of Aberfan, and Mr. Idris Abraham, of Dowlais, to operate workmen's services from Dowlais and Merthyr to BedwaS.
Some time ago the Commissioners laid it down (and were upheld in their views by the Minister of Transport) that it was not in the public interest for workmen to be carried 20 miles or more for employment in a district in which there was already a great deal of local unemployment.
In the present application, it was held that the men concerned were already employed in Bedwas and their transport could not affect local unemployment.
The Commercial Motor understands that a fresh appeal is being considered.
MANY LICENCE DELAYS IN NORTH WEST.
RELISTING of three " show-cause " .cases for hearing by the NorthWestern Traffic Commissioners at a sitting on May 11 presents the law's delays in rather too lurid an illumination, but many murmurs go to prove that great inconvenience and loss are caused to operators by delayed hearings and deferred decisions.
These three " charges " under Section 74 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, were preferred six months ago, relistecl at a later date and have now produced cOmplications by those hearings not being reached.
150,000 TRANSPORT DEAL.
AS foreshadowed exclusively in The Commercial . Motor, some weeks ago, Cleethorpes Urban District Council has agreed to buy the . Grimsby Street Tramways system for E.50,000.
The price has to be submitted to the Minister of Transport for approval. Cleethorpes Coun.cil intends to abandon the tramways in. favour of trolleybuses in conjunction with Grimsby Corporation.
FLEETWAYS AND EXPRESS SERVICES TAKEN OVER.
LAST week-end the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., took over the Lincolnshire-London services formerly run by the Fleetways and Express Safety Coach cOmpanies. Mr. R. H. Favell, general manager of Fleetways, has been appointed the Road Car company's manager in the Grimsby area.
RENEWALS OVERDUE: BACKINGS REFUSED.
APPLICATIONS for backings were listed for hearing at a sitting of the North-Western Traffic Commissioners, on Tuesday, as new applications, owing to the renewals being sought after the expiration of the previous licences. In some instances there was a gap of over 12 months, and, in many cases, the backings were refused.