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PASSENGER TRANSPORT

JOINT COUNCIL ON "ALERT" RUNNING

AT a meeting at Derby a few days ago, the National Joint Council of the Road Passenger Transport Industry decided to recommend municipal passenger-transport undertakings and their employees to comply with the official request to continue operating during an " alert " air raid warning, until danger is imminent.

It was also agreed in principle that, in such circumstances,' there should be an augmentation of the Government compensation scheme for death or injury resulting to employees from adopting this practice.

MORE PASSENGERS BUT LOWER PROFIT

DARLINGTON Corporation transport services made a net profit of £4,055 in the year ended March 31, 1940, compare with £4,982 in the previous year. The number of passengers carried was 18,500,000$ an increase of 11.5 per cent. The corporation has recently secured delivery of four new trolleybuscs.

BUSES DRIVEN TO LONDON: • WAGES COMPLAINT

BUS drivers and conductors employed by United Automobile Services, Ltd., are complaining that they have not been paid the wages agreed upon for taking buses to London, in response to an appeal by the London Passenger Transport Board. The men have held a meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne, when it was decided to press for the payment of the agreed rate of wages.

GREEN LINE COACH SERVICES AGAIN

RESTORATION of full green Line coach services is among the wintertransport plans of London Transport. Other schemes the Board has in mind are the extension of express bus services, which are now operating on 20 routes and non-stop services from factories in which employees live in welldefined areas. The possibility of the recall of drivers serving with the Forces is-also under consideration.

STRIKE ACTION THREATENED AT GLASGOW

GLASGOW Transport Committee is not to alter the existing arrangements for the running of buses and trams during the morning hours. This statement was made at a meeting of the committee, when Councillor D. S. Brown, convener, replied to the threatened strike action by the employees if their grievances be not remedied.

With regard to the complaint of inadequate running time in the morning black-out, he pointed out that the same time was being allowed as a year ago, when there was no street lighting. No other city in the country had run fling-time concessions in the morning, and it would be impossible for the corporation to make a concession at a time when the services were overloaded, without prejudicing the national effort.

In answer to the suggestion that all the available buses should be pressed into service, he stated that 60 buses had been takeu over by the Government and 60 others were not licensed because of fuel restrictions. There was difficulty in servicing buses, because of the many skilled men who had taken up Government work.

BUS SURPLUS AT HALIFAX

HALIFAX municipal bus services !yielded a gross revenue of 2164,416 during the financial year ended March 31 last, In addition, there was 2178,176 gross revenue from the Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee's services. The 'operating expenses of both groups of services aggregated £255,549, and after special items of expenditure have been met there is a surplus of £28,389.

LONDON TRANSPORT'S WINTER SCHEDULES

NEW winter schedules were introduced by London Transport on November 20. They make provision for the maximum number of buses at the earlier hours in the evening at which people are now returning home from work. After this time bus services will be reduced, and the last buses will run from Central London at approxi. mately 10.30 p.m. Special services will be run for late workers.

In addition, four new daily bus services designed to supplement railway services have been introduced.

GAS BUS PLEASES NOTTINGHAM

DEMONSTRATION trial runs on one of the heaviest traffic routes of the Nottingham municipal-transport undertaking were recently made with a petrol bus fitted with a gas-producing unit of a special type. ,The results were satisfactory, and the running time was kept more or less to schedule.

For some weeks the gas-producing unit has been experimented with by the department, and the trial was made on the completion of the work. Anthracite fuel was used in the produrcer, which has a capacity for a normal day's running of a bus on any of Nottingham's routes, The vehicle can be run on gas alone, on a mixture of gas and petrol, or purely on petrol. Normally, a bus has to be started on petrol, and previous experiments revealed that it was impossible to keep to the present schedule of running by the use of gas alone. Accordingly, a booster petrol carburetter was fitted for this latest trial, and the results were satisfactory.

It is stated that experiments are also being conducted with a gas producer of local origin.

PASSENGER-VEHICLE GROUPING SCHEME

A SCHEME for the voluntary group

ing of buses and coaches owned by Yorkshire operators who are outside the larger undertakings, so that such vehicles can be quickly mobilized to meet any major pasSenger-traosport dislocation which might be caused in the region by enemy action, has been introduced by the Transport Commissioner for the North-Eastern Region, Major F. S. Eastwood. Meetings of operators for the formation of the groups have been held this week in various Yorkshire cities and boroughs.

Each group has a leader, who, if the necessity arises, will be responsible for arranging the provision Of vehicles by his group. Unlike the goods-vehicle groups, these passenger-vehicle groups have no connection with the machinery for fuel rationing. , Larger undertakings, such as the "combine " and municipal concerns, are tot included in the grouping arrangements, because, If necessary, they can be quickly contacted without the aid of such machinery.

A scheme on similar lines has been introduced in the North ' Midland Region.

In Yorkshire there are nine grouping centres—Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate, York, Huddersfield, W akefi el d, Barnsley. Sheffield and Doncaster. A correspondent learned, early this week, that it was hoped about 250 vehicles would be grouped in Yorkshire.

TRAMS IN THE SHADOW AT SALFORD I N the past half year there was a net surplus of £21,665 on the transport undertaking of Salford Corporation. Income from buses amounted to 2274,910 and expenditure to £237,664, so that, in this section, there was a net surplus of 237,246.

In the case of trams, there was a deficit of £15,581. The buses covered an aggregate mileage of 3,379,995 in the six months and carried 35,836,466 passengers.

STOCKPORT BUSES MAKE GOOD SHOWING

THE revenue account of Stockport Corpdration in respect of buses, for the year ended March 31, 1940, shows a balance of £29,160, income having totalled 2121,510 and expenditure 292,350. After taking into account a contribution in respect of capital expenditure provided out of reserve fund, amounting to £13,428, and certain other items, the surplus for transference to the appropriation account amounts to 210,416.

From tramways operation the appropriation account receives £26,745. Out of the total of 237,161 for the two sections, a contribution of £10,000 is made in aid • of rates, and a balance of £26,874 is transferred to the reserve fund account.

The corporation operates 79 buses, many of them oilers, on a route mileage of 52 within the borough and 62 outside it. In the past year the buses covered 2,125,793 miles and carried 16,419,213 passengers.


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