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L'UNDS are to be collected by
• Birmingham Ratepayers' Associa'Lion for the issue of a writ to rest rain the city treasurer from giving to' the 'transport department £90.000—the 'annual-coat of providing free bus travel for old people. Mr. G. Prescott, the founder of the association, led a body of public opinion in opposing the freetravel scheme from the time of its -prOposal. He has said that it would 'cost £1,000 to issue a writ, but that he would take the necessary steps when £500 had been collected. It is understood in Newcastle that the local branch of the Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association has initiated a campaign for cheaper fares for pensioners. The Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., have promised to look into the question of carrying pensioners at lower rates.
12-DAY TOURS TO NORWAY
. ALICENCE was recently granted by the Scottish Licensing Authority to enable Cotter's Motor Tours, Ltd., to run 12-day tours from Glasgow and Edinburgh to.Norway. Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., and the Railway Executive objected tb, the'touis starting from the capital, and W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., and b.. Lawson, Ltd.,. opposed those operating from Glasgow. The vehicles will travel to Newcastle by road and will be carried by ship to Bergen. The tours will cost £54 12s. Mr. B. Cotter, principal of the applicant company, said that he had received an increasing number of inquiries for Norwegian tours. Many had come from people who had travelled on the more popular tours and required sbmething different.
lie did not intend to start the tours .until next year. He admitted that a few of his concern's early tours for this year had been cancelled, but attributed this to the Coronation—few people wanted to leave Britain until the ceremony was over.
UNDOUBTED BENEFITS OF DENATIONALIZATION TRADE and industry would un1 doubtedly benefit by the denationalization of transport, said Mr. H. L. Walker, chairman of the Northern Area of the Road Haulage Association, when he spoke, last week, at the annual dinner of Tees-side Sub-area. Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw said that a great deal of credit must be given to the R.H.A. for the Transport Bill. The Association had worked in the interests of both existing and former long-distance hauliers, although former hauliers could have been ignored. Supt. C. W. Ritchie, of Stockton police, publicly thanked Mr. R. Durham, sub-area chairman, for the assistance that he gave during the recent floods. Mr. Durham and his men
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worked all night and helped the police to block one end of Haverton Hill tunnel, thus averting a disaster. "We had a wonderful example of co-operation between State-controlled transport and private enterprise," said Supt. Ritchie.
R.H.A. FORM GOLF CLUB
A GOLFING society is being formed rl■ by the Road Haulage Association's Metropolitan and South-eastern Area. The proposal was made at the Association's conference at Blackpool, last year. Details can be obtained from Mr. P. S. Woodhouse, 62 Oxford Street, London, W.I. The annual subscription is £1 Is. The captain is Mr. W. Golder and the first meeting will be held on April 30 at the Langley Park Golf Club's course at Beckenham, Kent. ,
" C.M." AT TORONTO
TTOGETHER with some of its associ1 ated journals, 'The Commercial Motor will be represented. at the Canadian Trade Fair to be held in Toronto from June 1-12. British exhibitors'are taking an area of display space second only to that to be occupied by Canadian companies. Twenty other countries will be represented.
, FREE PARKING AT CLUMBER
rREE coach ' parking facilities are I provided at Clumber Park Estate, • Worksop, Notts, 'which was recently purchased by the National Trust. Public admission is also without charge. The estate was formerly the seat of the Duke of Newcastle and contains a large area of park, progressively being cleared by the Army. Catering arrangements are made for visitors.
MOVE TO END DISPUTE
A SUGGESTION has been made r-s. by Hartlepool Corporation to West Hartlepool Corporation that another attempt be made to settle their dispute over the operation of buses between the two towns. Both bodies were recently granted a licence to provide such a service, but the Northern Licensing Authority expressed the hope that a former profit-sharing agreement could be brought back into force.
Hartlepool Corporation have no buses of their own.
I.o.T. IRISH SECTION THE inaugural meeting of the Irish Section of the Institute of Transport was held in Dublin recently under the chairmanship of Mr. T. C. Courtney, chairman of Coras lompair Eireann. The opening address was given by the institute's president, Mr. C. T. Brunner.