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Operators Complain of Council Extravagance

26th September 1958, Page 120
26th September 1958
Page 120
Page 120, 26th September 1958 — Operators Complain of Council Extravagance
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IMPROVEMENTS to the bus station at I Consett (Durham), estimated to cost £3,000, are expected to be delayed through a dispute between Consett Urban District Council, owners of the station, and the four companies using it.

The operators are objecting to a proposed increase of 44d. per bus per day to the charge for using the station, and have offered the council 11d. They complain that the bus station is being operated extravagantly, and have proposed that the council should allow operators to run it themselves.

Among other things, the companies suggest that a bus station superintendent is not needed. The Ministry of Transport have been approached. and a public inquiry into the position may be held.

OUTPUT AND EXPORTS DOWN QTATISTICS issued on Monday by the Board of Trade showed that 11,863 commercial vehicles (11,440 goods and 423 passenger) were built in August. These figure; compare with 12,779 (12,348 goods and 431 passenger) in August, 1957.

Exports similarly declined. In August this year 8,766 vehicles (8,268 goods and 498 passenger) were exported, as against 9,711 (9,192 and 519 respectively) a year earlier.

MORE BUS REDUCTIONS

WHEN trolleybuses are withdrawn in Brighton the public will have to face further reductions in services, ClIr. D. B. Theaker, chairman of the town planning -committee, said last week. Bus companies could not be run at a loss like the railways, he declared, so the problem would eventually have to be tackled by the Government.

BUS BUSINESS TAKE-OVER THE bus business of Cecil Moffitt,

Ltd., Acomb (Northumberland), has been taken over by a neighbouring concern, M. Charlton and Sons, Ltd., Newborough. Moffitt's owned 10 buses and operated three services in the Hexham area A few years ago they were running seven services.