Labour Party Calls for Oxford Scheme
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" CITIZENS of, and visitors to, Oxford are victims of an ill managed, inadequate and entirely unreliable public transport service" and Oxford City Labour Party "requests the Regional Transport Commissioner to inquire further into the transport system of this area and seriously to consider its transfer to public ownership under an area scheme," This resolution was passed by the annual meeting of the Oxford Labour Party recently and sent to the West Midland Regional Council of the party.
Subsequently, at• a city council meeting, much dissatisfaction was expressed by members of the council on the fares and services of the company. It was suggested that the new fares charged by the company were not those published when the ,application to increase fares was made.
4 BY 4s WANTED FOR KOREA
THE chief of the Supply and Transport Division, International Refugee Organization, Geneva, requires tenders from British manufacturers for the supply of 10 four-wheel-drive 3-4-ton
lorries for use in Korea, No detailed specifications or conditions of tender have been issued.
The Commercial Relations and Export Department, Board of Trade, Millbank, London, S.W.1, wishes to be notified by any company which submits a tender so that the British consulgeneral in Geneva, to whom the approach for the vehicles Was made, may be informed.
YORKS AREA OFFICE CHANGE
THE offices of the Yorkshire Traffic Area have been moved to 29, Eastgate, Leeds, 2. Eventually, the Leeds court room will be accommodated in the new offices, but for the time being Leeds licensing inquiries will continue to be held at National Employers' House, Quebec Street, -Leeds, 1.