• 38 Per Cent. of Fares Go to B.T.C.
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QPEAK.ING at Bristol, on Monday, Sir Cyril Hurcomb, chairman of the . British Transport Comm•ss•on, estimated that the gross revenue from ' public passenger transport last year was
, £340,000,000. This sum excluded • receipts from vehicles with fewer than • eight seats.
The B.T.C. earned 60 per cent, of this amount. The road services of London Transport and the B.T.C. bus companies in the provinces and Scotland yielded £78,000,000. Municipal operators earned 155,000,000 gross and companies with more than five buses £57,000,00. The smaller operators' receipts totalled about £15,000,000. • Fares paid by road passengers in 1948. said Sir Cyril. amounted to . £205,000,000, of which the B.T.C.
• . received about 38 per cent.
ACTIVITIES Hit THORNYCROFT HE take-over by the British Trans
port Commission of the railways and long-distance road services is .having a most disturbing effect on a number of our old customers, , and undoubtedly we shall have to look.foiward to a very difficult two or three years in the home market," says Sir John E. Thornycroft, K.B.E., governing director and chairman of John I. Thornycroft and Co.. Ltd., in his anntial statement, issued on Tuesday.
He says that improved supplies of materials enab!ed outpiit to be increased last year, and 35 per cent. in value was exported.
During the year. the Iraq Petroleum Co. placed a big order for tractors, to be known as Mighty Antar, capable of dealing with. 80.-ton loads. He hoped that these tractors would be sold in other countries as well. The Trident would go into production in 1950. •
B.T.C.—ALIAS PROVIDENCE. .
ON the eve of its acquisition by the -/British Transport Commission, Cobden Transport Co., „Nottingham, withdrew an application to the East Midland Licensing -Authority for a licence to.. run a maintenance vehicle in connectionwith its fleet of 18 vehicles. The application was opposed by the
Railway Executive. • . • When the case came . before, the
• Deputy Licensing Authority,'at Nottingham, last week, Mr.' A. C. G: • Rothera, for the company, said: "Since the making of this .application, providence seems to have intervened in the shape of an acquisition order from the British Transport CommissiOn. The. undertaking is 'to, be acquired by the Road Haulage. Executive' at midnight
to-night. ' ' •
"In view. of the fact that it is not now the slightest interest to the applicant, there seems to -be no point in my being a party toa disputC,•between the
two Executivei." — • • MOST...MILK BY ROAD
Othe 70,220 -gallons of milk V brought into Liverpool each day, 69,790 gallons .come--by-road. Nearly 12 per cent. .f all fish supplies came by road last year.
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