Fares : Discretion for Councils ?
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LEG1SLATION permitting municipal transport authorities to raise charges at their discretion is to be sought by the Association of Municipal Corporations. A decision to ask the Minister. of Transport to institute this legislation was taken at a recent meeting of the Association in London. The meeting also discussed the power of a Licensing Authority to ask for an undertaking from a. corporation not to appropriate any profit from the transport department for the general rate fund. This was held to be contrary to the statutory right and duty of a municipality, which was to apply such surplus money to the reduction of the general rate. It was also suggested that the Licensing Authorities could no longer refuse applications to increase fares on a scale sufficient to enable an undertaking to establish and maintain a reserve fund.
MR. PILCHER TO RETIRE NEXT MONTH
ro January 29, 1952. Mr. R. Stuart C.B.E., F.R.S.E., M.Inst.T., will retire from the office of West Midland Licensing Authority. He will be succeeded by Mr. W. P. fames, 0.B.E. Mr. James is a principal of the Ministry of Transport, which he entered in 1934. He served in the West Midland Traffic Area until 1943, when he was transferred to the road goods transport division at Ministry headquarters. Since 1948 he has beets in the shipping-policy division.
VAN INTERESTS TO BE SOLD?
IT is understood that the Turner Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Wolverhampton, is negotiating with a .trust organization to dispose of its Tight delivery van interests. Expansion of existing contracts in the Wulfruna Works has curtailed production of the By-van and Tri-van.