£500,000 Bid by , Leeds : id. on Minimum Fares DROVISION
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for the increased price and tax on fuel is included in a £500,000 fare application which Leeds City Council last week approved for submission to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. The "permanent' part of the application is designed to yield an extra £375,000 a year, and £125,000 is expected from a temporary increase of Id. on the 2d. minimum fare.
Ald. J. Rafferty, chairman of the transport committee, said the higher fuel tax and the increased price of fuel would cost the undertaking £117,000 a year.
Most of the bus undertakings which are taking advantage of the Hydrocarbon Oil Duties (Temporary Increase) Act by introducing temporary increases are doing so by adding ld. to their minimum fares.
Wolverhampton Transport Committee have proposed that their temporary increases should also apply on trolleybuses. This would avoid difficulties on routes where both trolleyhuses and motorbuses operate.
Applications for higher fares have been made to the North-Western Traffic Commissioners by Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., and Wigan Transport Department and joint operators.
Crosville are applying for Id. increase on single fares from 3d. to 6d., and Id. on single fares of Is. and over, and on all returns; 121 per cent. increase on workers' weekly tickets and certain monthly contracts; and I0 per cent, on scholars' five-day tickets.
The application of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., for higher fares (The Commercial Motor, on December 7) has been granted in part. The increases were introduced on Sunday.
THREE MORE A VEHICLES FOR HANSON
nESPITE opposition by the British Transport Commission, Hanson Haulage, Ltd., Huddersfield, were granted an application to add three vehicles of 3 tons each to their existing A licences by Mr. J. H. E. Randolph. Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, at Leeds, last week.
Mr. A. Goff, for Hanson's, said the application was to enable them to take over the business run by A. P. Lesby under an A licence in respect of three vehicles, totalling 71 torts, at a base at Marsden, and replace them by newer vehicles.
Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for the B.T.C., submitted that the applicants must produce figures showing a need for addi tional vehicles in Huddersfield. Mr, Goff said that, proof of the existence of a business should be sufficient in a take-over.
Mr. Randolph said he was satisfied that there was a substantial business and this was sufficient evidence for the application to succeed.