Effect of ,Road Plan on P.M.T.
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THE possible effect on the company of the Government's new road improvements programme was referred to by Mr. Raymond W. Birch, chairman and managing director, at . the annual meeting of the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., last week.
Mr. Birch described as a "very serious headache for our management" the abnormally low headroom of the bridges, at the Stoke and Longton railway stations which prevented them from operating the normal type of double-decker on the principal routes in the city.
" It is admittedly a major job to excavate and reconstruct the roads under the bridges to permit the passage of.normal vehicles, but surely that is be very kind of work which should be given high priority in the Government's new road improvements programme," he said.
During the past year the company had provided facilities to new housing estates, and had spent nearly £150,000 on new and improved vehicles. Two new booking and inquiry offices had been opened at Burslem and Leek.
"MORE TRAFFIC BETWEEN MANSFIELD AND YARMOUTH"
nURING the past two years the
number of passengers on journeys between Ma nsfield and Great Yarmouth had increased by nearly 300, the East Midland Licensing Authority was told last week when the Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd., applied to operate a new summer express service between Shirebrook and Yarmouth.
Mr. K. Laing, for the applicants, said there had been additional vehicles in 1954. It was proposed to pick up passengers at Church Warsop, Market Warsop, and Mstnsfield Woodhouse.
Messrs. Truman Services, Shircbrook, who objected, said that Midland General were not properly entitled to.
the traffic. Truman's had been the established operators there for some 50 yeats.
The Authority granted a licence for this year only.
ROAD HEATED BY ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
In.A SMALL section of the A171 road on Ormesby Bank, a 1-in-61 gradient near Middlesbrough, has been relaid with electric elements embedal in the asphalt surface to prevent the formation of icc in cold weather. The elements are connected to the public electricity supply and build up residual heat during qff-peak periods.
North Riding County Council, the General Electric Co., Ltd., and local electricity officials are co-operating in the project, the results of which can not he known for some time, according to Mr. R. Sawtell, county surveyor. He does not think the idea is applicable to long stretches of road.