Ten New Midland Red Services
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A CONTINUING serious shortage of PA staff, with resulting cost increases in the form of overtime and other penalty payments, was reported by Mr. John Spencer Wills this week in his speech as chairman of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd. Despite this handicap, and the pressure of immense taxation burdens and wage
awards, the company had resisted the temptation to restrict its operations, said Mr. Wills; in fact 10 new services had been introduced during 1961, and the frequency increased on 86 services.
During the second year of operating the London-Birmingham motorway express services, said Mr. Wills, 6,637 journeys were run, 199,316 passengers carried and 797,817 miles were covered.
Compared with the first year this was pn increase of 1,519 journeys, 47,943 passen gers and 174,616 miles. The equivalent I.ondon-Coventry service completed I:5 first year on August 31 last, and had carried 86,372 passengers on 3,232 journeys for a total of 333,088 miles.
These very popular services would ;tot have been possible, said the chairman, but for the design and development of the special coaches at the company's own central works at Edgbaston.
Direct taxation had cost the company £1,409,000 in 1961, said Mr. Wills; the net dividend paid to shareholders was, by contrast, £299,000.
He reported that the two prototype D.10 underfloor-engined doublo-deckers had now satisfactorily covered a total of 104,000 miles in ordinary service; this type of vehicle was likely to feature in a future production programme.
12 NEW VEHICLES GRANTED UTULLAN BROTHERS, LTD., have 'VI been granted 12 new vehicles on B licence by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. The conditions to be observed are: "Coal, except from rail connected collieries, unless at the request of the National Coal Board, open cast coal from sites and to and from stocking grounds. coke and patent smokeless fuels, colliery waste and road making materials, all within a radius of 100 miles of Whittington Moor Post Office. Chesterfield."
PARKING BAN PLAN WITH the object of ensuring a VV smoother flow for buses, the Glasgow Transport Committee are proposing a ban on kerbside parking within the central square mile of the city.