GLOUCESTER SELLS OUT TO BRISTOL CO.
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r-IN Monday, Gloucester City Council %-/decided to transfer, under a 21-year agreement, its transport undertaking to the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd. An offer on these lines was made by Thomas Tilling, Ltd., on behalf of the company. • The Bristol concern -will manage the municipal undertaking, provide rolling stock, and pay the corporation £2,000 per year. After making this payment, and meeting working and overhead costs and rent charges. the company will take 20. per vehicle-mile to cover depreciation, management and interest expenses. Any remaining balance will be divided equally between the corporation and the company..
METROPOLITAN COMMISSIONER CHAMPIONS SMALL MEN.
DESPITE London Transport's statemeht that it would have to reduee its Green Line service to 13ookharri, to the great inconvenience of the public, if two excursions, one to Southend and the other to Whipsnade, were granted to Mr. W.. A.. Freelove, of Bookham, the Metropolitan Commissioner denied that the Green Line undertaking was suffering losses through the granting of long-distance day excursions to small operators. and allowed the applications.
He did not even require the applicant to prove " need," stating that it was an experimental excursion that should be granted."
FLEETWAYS TAKEN OVER.
1--IN Monday, the Metropolitan Traffic O granted the -backing applications by the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd„ to acquire the licences of Express Safety Coaches, Ltd., and Fleelways, Ltd., for London-Cleethorpes -services. Certain modifica
tions asked for were refused. The night services at Easter, Whitsun and the August Bank Holiday were deleted, owing to railway opposition.
SMALL MEN NOT DRIVEN OUT?
yJITH the taking over of five Welsh VV undertakings from small, hut pioneer, operators of the Carnarvon district, Crosville Motor Services, Ltd.. now has 960 licences in the North-Western Area.
The chairman of the North-Western Commissioners, Mr. W. Chamberlain, made a point of questioning those who were surrendering licences as to whether they had been driven off the road by the regulations. They denied this, however, and accepted his suggestion that they were driven off the roads with their pockets full of money.
LAUNDRY SEEKS TO RUN ITS OWN BUSES.
THE application of the Midland Cooperative Laundries Association, Langley Mill, to the East Midland Traffic Commissioners for permission to run its own bus service for employees, between Corby and its works at Irthlingborough, was opposed by
the United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd.
Mr. F. B. Pears, for the applicants, urged that the existing bus service was inconvenient and that the fares proposed to be charged were pro hibitive to the younger girls. The Association was unable to obtain in Irthlingborough the labour required.
The .United company's offer of 6s. fkl. per week for five days meant that the girls would not travel from Corby.. The Association proposed to charge a minimum of 2d. per journey, and the following rates: Girls, 14-15 years, 2s. perweek; 10-17 years, 3s„; 13-19 years, 4s.; 20-21 years, 5s.
Mr. H. J. Downs; assistant traffic manager -of the "United Counties," pointed out that the company's offer of weekly fares at Is. 4d. per day represented the extraordinarily low rate of less than Id. per mile, Decision .was reserved.
WORKERS "CARRY ON."
MPLOYEES of the United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., have decided. to continue work under the present arrangement, until they consider that the time is opportune for improved wages and conditions. The company has rejected the men's demands.. on the ground that a substantial increase in fares would be necessitated, The company will not consider any inflation of the total wages account.
NO COACHES OVER HONISTER.
FOLLOWING consideraNe opposition, bus operators in the Lake District of Cumberland have with-drawn applications to run buses over Honister Pass, Cumberland, one of the area's beauty spots. Sir John Maxwell (chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners), at a sitting at Carlisle, said that the operators had acted wisely in withdrawing their applications.