M.A.A. AND THE TRANSPORT BILL
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SQPEAK1NG at a dinner of the Motor
Agents' at on April 23, the chairman, Mr. G. S. Payne, managing director of Hamilton Motors, Ltd., said that discastons were now proceeding with the Government concerning the position of garages and petrol stations which might be taken over with haulage concerns in the event of the Transport Bill being passed.
I.R.T.E. MEMBERS SEE ALBIONS
MADE TWENTY-S1X members of the I Scottish section of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers visited the Scotstoun works of .Albion Motors, Ltd., on April 25. Mr. G. Holmes, chairman of the section, and Mr. W. Martin, hon. secretary, were in the party. Mr. J. Wightman, of the Albion employment division, arranged the visit, and among those who welcomed the party were Mr. Sydney Wightman and Mr. C. S. Blaber.
Plans of the Scottish section for. the new session will include two meetings in Edinburgh and five in Glasgow.
"CO-OP." OPPOSES PRIVATE COMPANY
AN appeal by the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society, trading as the Skye Transport Co., against the granting of a licence by the Scottish Traffic Commissioner, was heard at Inverness on April 23 before Mr. T. P. MacDonald, Special Commissioner appointed by the Minister of Transport.
The appellant objected to a -licence being granted to Neil Beaton, Ltd., Skye, to run a bus service between Portree and Dunvegan. Mr. W. MacNicoll, for the S.C.W.S., held that the service given by his company was sufficient for the district.
Mr. Forrest, for the respondent, said that Neil Beaton, Ltd., was carrying passengers by the North route to Dunvegan, and to co-ordinate all services it was right that it should operate on the other route.
READING-LONDON SERVICES AGAIN—AT 1942 FARE
TWO services from Reading to London, which were withdrawn in September, 1942, will be restored on May 17, One, operated directly by the Thames Valley Traation Co., Ltd., will be routed via Wokingham, Bracknell
and Ascot. The other, run by the Ledbury Transport Co. (which is owned by the Thames Valley concern) will pass through Maidenhead and Slough. Victoria Coach Station will be the London terminal of both services. The return fare will be 5s. 9d., as in 1942.
LEY LANDS FOR BRISTOL
COR the first time in peace, buses from an outside manufacturer have been delivered to Bristol for operation of the city's services. Fifty new doubledeckers have been ordered from Leyland Motors, Ltd., and the first two chassis have already been delivered to the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co, Ltd. The Bristol concern is building its own bodies.