Liverpool buses on 'short term'
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• Liverpool Corporation applied in Manchester this week to renew a stage carriage service between Huyton and the city centre and because it has not been operated since last March due to staff shortages, the North West Traffic Commissioners only renewed it for six months. This is to give the Corporation an opportunity to try to introduce the service. However, intimated their chairman, Mr. C. A. Hodgson: "If a local operator likes to make an application to run the service, the Corporation will be in a very weak position to oppose it and he would not be discouraged to have a go." Mr. F. W. Stevens, for the Corporation, said that before the strike last May there was a staff shortage and it was now 485 drivers and 593 conductors down on full strength. He hoped o-m-o would eventually overcome these difficulties.
Chairman of Huyton with Roby UDC transport committee, Cllr. A. Dunn, said that if their objection to this renewal succeeded they would lose the service but equally, if they lost they were still without buses. He asked the Commissioners only to grant the renewal on the condition that some form of service was introduced.