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CORPORATIONS SEEK CONTROL OF PASSENGER TRANSPORT NAEMBERS of the Municipal PassenMger Transport Association are trying to secure control of road passenger transport. Seventy-eight of the 95 local authority undertakings in membership of the Association were represented at an extraordinary general meeting last week, when a resolution was adopted declaring that responsibility for road passenger services should be made a statutory obligation of local authorities.
"Such services should be under the direction of joint area committees appointed by the local authorities within the areas of such committees," said the resolution, which was sent to the Minister of Transport and all constituted associations of local authorities.
GLASGOW-LONDON SERVICE RESUMED
GLASGOW-LONDON coach services reopened on March 19, after having been cancelled for a week. A full coachload of 29 passengers had booked for the trip.
More ambitious time-tables are being planned for the summer months. A night service from Glasgow to Manchester is to be started and—likely to be most popular of all—a day service to Blackpool.
HEAVY DAMAGE TO LONDON BUSES
LONDON TRANSPORT engineers have been working at high pressure to complete the task of repairing buses, coaches, trams and trolleybuses damaged during the cold spell. Over 450 radiators were fractured, and the motors of 120 trolleybuses and 50 trams were damaged either by heavy snow penetrating them or by salt thrown up from the roads.
In one week, London Transport had Co deal with over 400 cases of broken springs in motorbuses and trolleybuses.
DARLINGTON PLEADS FOR TIME nARLINGTON Town Council has applied for five years extension of the time allowed for the authority to introduce trolleybuses on three more routes in the town. The present time limit expires on July 3 this year.
WEEKLY STRIKE THREATENED MPLOYEES of Sunderland and District Omnibus Co., Ltd., staged a 24-hour token strike last Saturday, as a protest against the alleged interference by the management in the union membership of the company's clerks. The employees have threatened to repeat the strike each week-end until the management recognizes the right of the clerks to join the National Association of Clerks and Supervisory Workers, which is affiliated to the Transport and General Workers Union.
The company's view is said to be that the clerks are really officials, and that it is not satisfactory for both officials and employees to belong to the same union. The concern does not oppose the right of the clerks to be members of a union.
EXCURSION PERIODS MAY BE EXTENDED 'TO assist the provision of road-trans]. port facilities for staggered holidays, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority announces that he will consider favourably applications for an extension of the period of operation from any operator whose excursions are at present limited to a specified local annual holiday week. Any such application should be supported by a written statement from the appropriate Chamber of Commerce indicating the proposed industrial holiday arrangements in the town from which the excursions start. BRITISH COACHES ON FAST SERVICES IN ARGENTINA
MANY post-war British vehicles which were shipped to the Argentine last year are now working on long-distance coach services between large towns. Cia de Transportes Camineros S.R.L., is running two Leyland coaches from Buenos Aires to Bahia Blanca, a distance of 426 miles, in 13i hours' running time.
Another Leylanti, equipped with an ice chest, is completing runs from Buenos Aires to the seaside resort of Miramar, via Mar del Plata, a distance of 280 miles. This coach is the first of eight Leylands supplied by A. G. Pruden and Co. to Cia Colectiva Costera Criolla S.A. The vehicles are 8 ft. wide and have 17-ft. 6 -in. wheelbases. The bodies are designed on American lines.
Four new 8-ft.-wide models, which have been included in the Leyland range, are designed primarily for operation on the fiat, inter-urban roads of the Argentine and other Republics of South America.