ORGANIZING SUPPORT FOR "FANTAILS"
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WHY the travelling public should W sign petitions against restrictions imposed by the South-Eastern Traffic Commissioners on fantail tours is explained in a leaflet issued by Lancashire Coach Operators' Extended Tours Committee.
It is stated• that the struggle is one for popular coach holidays, against monopoly and restriction, and, unless the rights of coach operators and the public be safeguarded, this season may be the last for happy, carefree holidays at an inclusive fee to cover coach travel, hotel accommodation and meals during the period of the tour.. Passengers and others interested are asked to send a postcard or a letter to the local Member of Parliament, protesting against the restrictions, or to sign the forms of petition that have been prepared.
BIGGER LANCS BOARD PLAN?
THERE appear to be prospects of
negotiations being reopened for the formation of a joint municipal transport board in Lancashire, even larger than that envisaged in the plan which recently finally collapsed, after a troublous career.
Eleven corporations have been invited to reopen discussions on the matter and favourable replies are anticipated so soon as the holiday season is finished. The railways have shown an interest in the new plan, and Manchester No. 5 branch of the Railway Clerks Association has urged the Ministry of Transport to introduce into the House of Commons a scheme for the formation of a board similar to London Transport.
The fixing of a date for a proposed conference of local authorities to discuss the subject has not yet been completed.
FARES THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LOST.
ONE of the problems of urban bus operation is the collection of fares at peak periods. In many cases, journeys made are so short that it is impossible for a conductor to make , sure of collecting every passenger's fare.
Bournemouth Corporation has tried the experiment of equipping about 60 of its motorbuses and trolleybuses with conscience-money boxes. In eight or nine days £8 16s. 8d. was collected by this means, representing 2,120 penny fares which might otherwise have been lost. Over a period of a year, a considerable sum of money may be saved.
PROVINCIAL TRAMWAYS TO BE WOUND UP.
RESOLUTIONS have been passed at the annual meeting of the Provincial Tramways Co., Ltd., authorizing the directors to place the company in liquidation. It has disposed of its subsidiary undertakings, except the
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Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Co. The consideration on which winding up is proposed is as follows:— Preference shareholders are to receive 25s. in cash per share, with dividends up to the date of payment. Ordinary shareholders are to be paid 4s. in cash and will be awarded two ordinary shares of 4s. each in a new company, in respect of each fully paid £1 share held.
The new company is to take over the share capital of the Gosport and Fareham Omnibus Co., with any remaining surplus asset of the other subsidiaries. The Gosport and Fareham concern runs 30 buses, under Parliamentary powers granted in 1929. The Provincial Tramways Co., Ltd., has a total issued share Icapital of £224,560.
RAIL PROTECTION: APPEALS LODGED
APPEAAPPEALS are to be lodged with the LS of Transport by Southport operators of excursions and tours, who are aggrieved by a decision of the North-Western Traffic Commissioners concerning fares. The operators again applied recently for permission to charge fares 3d. in excess of the exceptional railway rates for special excursions, on the occasion of those trips being run. As before, the Commissioners rejected the applications.
£20,000 A YEAR TO ALTER SPREADOVERS.
GLASGOW CORPORATION has been asked by the Transport and General Workers Union to receive a deputation regarding a rearrangement of the spreadriver duties on Saturday and Sunday for drivers and conductors. It is estimated that the granting of the transport men's latest claim would cost at least £20,000 a year.
A report is to be prepared by the transport manager.