Western Welsh Take Over Coach Business
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THE overall advantage to passengers was stressed by Mr. T. G. Davies, general manager, when the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd., applied to the South Wales Licensing Authority, last week, to take over the coach business• of Messrs. E. R. Forte, Cardiff.
"We have found that the operation of tours and private-hire coaches, when it is done properly, is reasonably profitable, and the amount made from it reacts favourably on the level of stagecarriage fares," he said.
Mr. Davies said they proposed to take over Messrs. Forte's 21 coaches and the garage at Blackweir, but the tours would continue to operate as before, with Mr. E. R. Forse acting as their booking agent.
Western Welsh's garage in. Cardiff was, he said, "hopelessly congested," whilst Messrs. Forse's garage stood oil a large area. They hoped to operate all their tours from Blackweir by next season.
Messrs. Forse's average earnings from private hire and tours in the past two years was about £45,000 a year, Mr. Davies said.
Granting the application, Mr. C. R. Hodgson,. chairman of the Authority, said the arrangement appeared to be favourable, and the amount paid for the goodwill of the business was " very substantial."
" ABOLI$1I GLASGOW TRAMS" TRAMS should be abolished in Glasgow, declare the local Progressive Group in a municipal election statement. They condemn the Labour Group for buying discarded trams from Liverpool to keep Glasgow's " obsolete " system going.
The Progressives also advocate that the Central Electricity Authority should take over Pinkston power station. A decision about the use of trolleybuses would then depend entirely upon their cost of operation compared with that of motorbuses.
Co-ordination of transport in and around Glasgow is urged.