MANAGER OPPOSES RETURN TO Id.
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A N unfavourable report on the sugges
tion to reintroduce the id. fare for one stage has been made to the West Hartlepool Transport Committee by Mr. A. C. Barlow, general manager of the local undertaking. He says that for each 2d. fare reduced an additional passenger would have to be carried to bring in the same amount of revenue.
He did not think that a 100-per-cent. increase in passengers could be achieved, Recent experiments by transport undertakings indicated that lower bus fares were not, in general, any answer to the present problem of declining revenue.
Four reasons were given by Mr. Barlow for the decline in traffic on West Hartlepool buses: the increase in personal transport; television; the development of housing estates with their own shopping and recreation facilities; and the fall in attendances at cinemas and live sporting events.
THAMES FOR INDONESIA
AN order for Thames commercial vehicles and accessories, to the value of nearly £2m., has been obtained from the Government of Indonesia despite fierce German competition.