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LICENSED FOR PROPAGANDA?
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LABOUR MPs last week returned to the attack on bus companies they say are campaigning against the Government's plans for passenger transport.
First off the mark was Mr. A. J. Gardner (Rushcliffe) who said that Barton Transport Ltd. was telling its passengers that it was proposed to eliminate their coach services.
He asked if the Traffic Commissioners, in dealing with applications for fare increases, took into account expenditure on political propaganda.
He was followed by Mr. Leslie Hucklield, who pressed the Minister of Transport to assume powers to stop Midland Red campaigning against PTAs.
Mr. Stephen Swingler, Minister of State for Transport, said that since 1950 the Traffic Commissioners had granted 15 fare increases to Bartons and 16 to Midland Red. This showed the vicious spiral over the years of rising costs and falling prices, the basic reason why Mrs. Castle was to set up the PTAs.
It was, he noted, the duty of the Traffic Commissioners to take into account all factors relevant to the interests of the travelling public. Any propaganda carried out by Midland Red was its own responsibility.
CARS MUST GO BY RAIL
AT a resumed hearing in Manchester on Monday Mr. C. R. Hodgson, the North Western Licensing Authority, refused an application by Auto Motive Conveyancing, of Glasgow, for four articulated car transporters. The vehicles would have been based at Ellesmere Port.
A director said that his other company, Northern Car Collection East Kilbride Ltd., had previously carried the cars on a Scottish-licensed transporter.
Progressive Deliveries Holdings Ltd., objecting, gave evidence of rail availability. Mr. Hodgson said that for long-distance deliveries he would keep cars off the road if there was an efficient rail service.