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PASSENGER TRANSPORT
WORKERS OBJECT TO TROLLEYBUSES
THE Northern Traffic Commissioners, at Newcastle, last week, adjourned the hearing of an application to change over the Denton Square bus service to trolleybuses. It was Stated that the service was at present covered by United Automobile Services, Ltd.. which had reached an agreement to hand over the route to Newcastle Corporation for operation by trolleybuses.
Mr. R. Stokoe, representing 120 workers of Denton Burn, objected to the change-over on the grounds that the trolleybuses would take longer than motorbuses and would, therefore, curtail the dinner hour of many workers.
Sir John Maxwell, Chairman of the Commissioners, adjourned the hearing and suggested that both parties should try to make better arrangements, and insisted that better lunch-hour arrangements should be made.
OPPOSITION TO EASTERN EXCURSIONS FAILS.
HAVING acquired and thoroughly modernized a large roadhouse on the Southend Arterial Road, Mr. G. R. Valli, of Valliant Direct Coaches, Ltd., applied, last week, to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners for afternoon and evening excursion and tours licences from Ealing and Leytonstone to his new property. The fares to be charged were 2s. 6d. return from Ealing and 2s. from Leyton.
The two applications were strenuously opposed by London Transport and the railways, which made a tremendous case out of the "alternative facilities."
The opposition had recourse, also, to the argument of wasteful competition and claimed that this particular tour n40 if licensed would play havoc with other
tours. In support of this, the opposition attacked the fares, which, it was argued, were far too low.
The Commissioners agreed, basing their decision on other fares charged for similar tours. The fact that the Southend fare was recognized as an exceptionally low fare was not, it was contended, a basis for fares of tours along that road. Mr. Valli's argument. on the contrary, was that tours on the Southend route should, obviously, be governed by the Southend fares. His roadhouse was about half-way to Southend, and if he were obliged to charge, as suggested by the opposition, a fare in excess even of the Southend fare for half the distance, the licence would be worthless.
The Commissioners granted the application, fixing the fare from Leyton at 2s. 6d. and reserving decision as regards the fare from Ealing.
BUSES FOR YARMOUTH-BELGIUM BOATS.
THE Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., is to co-operate in providing facilities on certain days of the week for passengers from the surrounding districts of Yarmouth to avail themselves of the extended cross-Channel services (between that port and the Belgian coast) which will be run this year by the Queen Line.
The steamship company, will cater for day excursions and period holidays.
BERGEN SEES BRITAIN'S TRANSPORT.
NAEMBERS of the Bergen Tramways IVIBoard and the Burgomaster of Bergen arrived at Newcastle-on-Tyne, this week, to open a tour of the important transport undertakings in this country. They first inspected Newcastle Corporation's undertaking.
OPPOSITION TO U.A.S. NEW STATION
U1NITED Automobile Services, Ltd., %a/Darlington, applied to the Northern Traffic Commissioners, at Newcastle, last week, for permission to run its buses to its new station at Gallowgate. The Commissioners agreed to delay their decision in order that the company, Newcastle Corporation and the police could discuss the traffic problem, assuming that the new station would be used.
Mr. A. T. Evans, general manager of the company, criticized the present Haymarket Station as beilig dangerous, lacking in reasonable facilities, and imposing conditions on operators and the travelling public which would not be tolerated in other towns.
The Chief Constable of Newcastle (Mr. F. J. Crawley) objected on the grounds that the route to the new station would add to congestion. He complained that the company should have approached the police on the question before developing its station.
CROSVILLE'S NEW-TYPE DOUBLE-DECKE RS.
THE manager of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., Mr. W. J. C. Taylor, stated at the recent opening of the new social club premises at 'Wrexham that by the end of April it was almost certain that the company would have carried 90,000,000 passengers.
At the present time the company had in course of construction six buses of a type not yet seen in this country: they were double-deckers from which the roof could be removed by crane. Three of these vehicles would operate from Rhyl and three from Llandudno (luring the forthcoming summer.