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£16.5m Still Owing

27th June 1952, Page 53
27th June 1952
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IT is estimated that some £16.5m. is I still owing to former operators of road haulage undertakings acquired by the British Transport Commission, cornpulsorily or by agreement. A total of £61m. has already been paid out. The Minister of Transport gave this information in the House of Commons, this week. The-Commission had also purchased shares in road passenger undertakings to the value of £53m., about £300,000 of which was still outstanding.

BIG BELGIAN BUS ORDER

THOUGHT to be the largest single

order for buses yet placed on the Belgian market, Belgian Light Railways has ordered 80 underfloor-engined vehicles from Brossel Freres and Les Ateliers MetaBurgiques. Leyland engines will be fitted in the machines.

Last year, the B.L.R. introduced buses in place of rail services on 10 country routes. The company already operates 53 Brossel 60-passenger Leyland-engined buses and 10 Leyland Royal Tigers.

• HAULIER'S BOOKS REVEALED OFFENCES

A CCURATE records kept by a rA Clacton haulier, Herbert G. Taylor, led to his being charged at the local magistrate's court recently with exceeding the 25-mile limit on a number of occasions, the offences having come to light by reference to his books.

It was stated that Taylor, who pleaded guilty, had had his longdistance permit revoked. Fines totalling £7 10s. were imposed.

SEMAPHORES PREFERRED

" I SEE no sufficient grounds for the / suggestion that direction indicators of the flashing-light type are to be preferred to the semaphore type," said the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, in the House of Commons, this week. He added that thorough investigation had been made into the matter.

T.R.T.A. WANTS "DIVISIONS" AND " AREAS " IT is proposed that the present areas A and sub-areas of the Traders' Road Transport Association be styled " divisions " and " areas " respectively, as the size and scope of the Association is such as to can for revised nomenclature. Administrative methods are not affected by the suggested change, which has to receive approval at an extraordinary general meeting to be held on July 23.

Two other suggestions will be put to this meeting. One is that representatives aged over 70 should be debarred from membership of the national council, and the other that when the president and chairman are area representatives, the areas concerned shalt be entitled to elect further representatives to the national council. If one person

holds both the presidency and the chairmanship, the area he represents would be entitled to send only, one additional delegate.

It has been found in practice that the representation of an area committee is weakened by the election of one or more of its delegates to higher office, which, in effect, removes the holders from the status of area representative.


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