Civil War Stopped by 1930 Act
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COACti owners were not the only people to be harassed by the Government, for to give the maximum freedom to all you had to put some limit on the freedom of all, said Mr. lierwald Ramsbotham, 0.B.E., MC., M.P., at the annual dinner of the Morecambe, Heysham and District Coach Owners' Association, on Friday last.
It was in the general interest, he said, that there should not be civil war in the industry, as there was prior to the 1930 Act, Probably very few would wish to go back to the old conditions.
From its very birth, the industry seemed to have travelled under the restrictive guidance of the red flag, commented Mr. H. Allen, of Yelloway Motor Services, Ltd. The importance of road transport, he said, had never been realized by the Government. The 1930 Act had not regularized the industry-it had pulverized it. Figures that were quoted, he added, which showed increases in public service vehicles, were misleading, for, among • other things, they included those municipal fleets which had taken the place of trains.
How he went to Lancaster with a deputation regarding a scheme for combining the working of the Lancaster and Morecambe transport undertakings, was the subject of a reference made by Councillor M. Benson, who averred that had the plan been adopted the summer revenue of 33d. to 37d, per bus mile, derived from visitors to Morecambe, would have been secured by the joint service.