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THE North-Western Traffic Commissioners recently sanctioned new bus services between Salford and Walkden along the East Lancashire road, to be run jointly by the Salford Corporation and the Lancashire United Transport Company. The service is the first authorized to use the new road.
An application made recently to use it on the Manchester and Salford services through Liverpool was refused, but in the case of the Walkden route, the Commissioners gave consideration to facilities required by the new estates which are being developed in the Swinton area.
The chairman, Mr. W. Chamberlain, also mentioned that in refusing the use of the East Lancashire road to public service vehicles the Commissioners had left Swinton and Peadlebury residents marooned.
S.M.T. WAGES DISPUTE: INCREASE GRANTED. •
()N June18 representatives of the Transport and General Workers' Union met officials of the S.M.T. Co., Ltd., in Edinburgh, when it was agreed that male conductors of 21 and 22 years of age in scales B and C in the associated companies should receive an increase in pay of id. per hour, to come into operation on the first pay day of the first week after June 23.
A decision regarding an increase for drivers in the Northern Area was delayed pending further inquiry, the management agreeing to confer later on this matter with an official of the Union.
FALKIRK TRAM SERVICE TO BE DISCONTINUED.
rALICIRK Town Council has been notified by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., that the tramway service in Falkirk will be discontinued at an early date. This concern owns 99.2 per cent, of the issued share capital of the Fife Tramway, Light and Power Company, Ltd., which in turn owns all the issued share capital of the Falkirk and District Traction Company and the Dunfermline and District Traction Company.
The company has also intimated that, when the tramways cease to operate, the Traction Company will no longer be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the bridges over the Forth and Clyde Canal at Camelon and Bainsford.
MIDLAND RED NEGOTIATING FOR GREEN BUS SERVICE.
THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR understands that negotiations are proceeding with a view to the Midland Red Omnibus Co., Ltd., taking over the Green Bus Service between Warwick and Leamington. The negotiations are still in the preliminary stage and it has been denied that an actual transfer will take place on September 1.
c52 ABUSES OF "PRIVATE PARTY" REGULATIONS.
THE question " ' What is a private party?' would never have been asked, if it had not been for the desire to cut fares," said Mr. W. Chamberlain, chairman of the North-Western Traffic Commissioners at a recent sitting in Manchester.
Warning coach operators, Mr. Chamberlain said there had been abuses, and too liberal interpretations of Section 25 of the Road Traffic Act, 1934.
That section gave a ready interpretation If "private party" and "special occasion" and laid it down that there was to be no advertising. In order to ease the situation created before this amendment was passed, some industrial destinations had, however, been included in schedules of excursions.
For example, on the occasion of a football match at one of these towns, a trip was advertised at the fixed fare and crowds were attracted. After one coach had been filled the remaining passengers were told that private parties were being made up. This sort of abuse has got to be stopped, said Mr. Chamberlain, and the Commissioners were coming to the conclusion that industrial destinations should be cut out of the schedule, and applications for these destinations be dealt with under Section 27.
Brighton Tramways Committee is to consider the advisability of seeking powers for the conversion of the tramways to trolleybus working.
OBSERVING SCHEDULE LEADS TO FINE
AT Allo-a Sheriff Court recently T. F. Watson, of Bannockburn, was charged with having driven a motorbus between Alloa and Stirling in excess of the speed limit, Accused pleaded guilty, but said he could not keep to schedule without exceeding the limit.
The Chief Constable, Mr. David Robertson, said there was an average of 12 to 15 stops, and certainty the time was rather limited. " If he exceeds the speed limit he is in the hands of the police," said Mr. Robertson, " and if he runs late he is in the hands of the company."
For W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., the defendant's employer, it was pointed out that when the .time-tables were made up they were examined by the Commissioners, and if the average time for the journey exceeded 25 m.p.h. it would not be permitted. The average speed on the route in question was 21 m.p.h., and the time could be kept under normal circumstances. In this case there might have been an excessive number of stops.
The defendant stated that there had been a great many stops, and he had been held up by cattle emerging from a farm. A fine of £1 was imposed, with the option of five days in prison.,
DEFICIT AT HULL.
ADEFICIT of £27,584 is reported on the Hull transport undertaking for the past year. The loss on • the tramway system amounted to £14,004 and on the bus services to £13,580. The sum of £5,042 was required for renewals and the three items absorbed. the whole of the reserve fund of £32,773, leaving the sum of £331 to be made up from other Corporation funds.