P.V.O.A. Steps Up campaign
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AVIGOROUS campaign 'to recruit ...manufacturers and suppliers as associate members of the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association has been started. Members are asked to urge manufacturers and others with whom they have dealings to apply for associate membership and take part in the fight against nationalization.
The Association has prepared a concise pamphlet," Some Facts About the Threatened Nationalization of Buses and Coaches," for distribution to the public, local authorities and others. It emphasizes that little progress has been made with the two proposed area schemes so far mooted. It also stresses the strong resistance of local authorities towards the acquisition of their undertakings.
"Part political and part ideological" was how representatives of Huntingdon County Council described the proposed eastern area scheme after meetings with the Road Passenger Executive. Questions as to whether it was Government policy to nationalize all bus services were met with non-committal replies, it was stated. The R.P.E said that at that stage no conclusion had been reached as to the form the proposed scheme would take.
The implications of the 'Executive's proposals did not appear to have been clear to the county council until a letter was received from the P.V.O.A. which, it was said, "put a new colour on the approach." The merequestion
of •how many counties might be combined in an area, opinions on which the council was asked by the R.P.E. to express, was apparently secondary to the question whether it was in the public interest to end the provision of bus services by private enterpise.