Fares Machinery . to be Examined
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BECAUSE the division of responsibility for sanctioning increases in motorbus and • trolleybus fares • is divided between the Licensing Authorities and the Minister of Transport, thereby causing delays in announcing decisions, the Minister is to examine the position with a view to expediting the machinery.
This was made known in the House of Commons on Monday, when Mr. Ian Winterbottom criticized the effect of the present procedure upon Nottingham Transport Department's applications for fares increases.'
Mr. Winterbottom said that the Minister's decisions on trolleybus fares took longer to determine than the Licensing Authority's ruling on.motorbus fares. The Authority had to wait for the Minister's lead. One decision took 29 weeks to make, and the department lost £50,000.
The Minister reminded Mr. Winterbottom that Nottingham Corporation could have promoted a private Bill to obtain freedom to adjust fares itself. Within the past year, he said. 39 applications had been made to the Ministry to revise trolleybus fares.
EMPLOYERS PRESSED TO PAY FARES EMPLOYERS in the. Manchester Lei district are to be asked to pay the travelling expenses of their workers. A campaign with this aim has been launched by trade unionists in the engineering industry, as an alternative to the elimination of workmen's early morning fares.
Cllr. Chris. Blackwell, a member of Manchester City Council and vicechairman of the works committee of Metropolitan Vickers, Trafford Park, Manchester, is the leader of the movement. At the next meeting of Manchester Transport Committee, he is to submit a resolution welcoming the payment of workers' fares by their employers and offering the committee's full co-operation.
OBITUARY IvE regret to record the death of MR. TV A. T. FROGGArf, M.B.E. until recently chairman of Weynsames. Ltd., and a director of MetropolitanCaminell-Weymarin Motor Bodies, Ltd. From 1946-50 he was president of the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers, and was the first president of the Institute of Body Engineers from 1949-51.
LEYLAND'S £6m. ORDERS CONTRACTS worth over excluding any received from the Ministry of Supply, have been secured by Leyland Motors, Ltd., in the past few weeks. They comprise 1,133 goods and passenger chassis and 676 complete vehicles.
HURST'S TO SELL OUT?
IT is understood that negotiations are proceeding for the purchase of Messrs. Hurst's Winlaton Bus Service, by the Northern General Transport Co,, Ltd. Messrs. Hurst's are a 25-year-old firm running 12 buses on local services.