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Birmingham to Try Again?

2nd September 1955
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THE promotion of a new Parliamentary Bill designed to extend the scope of Birmingham's concession fares on the corporation's buses is to be pressed by the Labour group, which controls the city council.

The Bill would be similar to the one rejected in July by the House of Lords Select Committee (The Commercial Motor, July 29).

• Ald. A. F. Bradbeer, leader of the group, said last week that on September 20 a motion would be made asking the general purposes committee to consider and, if deemed desirable, to bring to the council proposals for depositing in November a Bill similar to the one rejected.

Mr. Gregory Prescott, a Birmingham ratepayer who, last year, obtained a High Court ruling that the corporation's free travel scheme for old people was illegal, has said that he would strongly oppose the suggested Bill.

R.H.A. CONFERENCE PLANS THERE will be three business sessions 1 during the Road Haulage Association conference, which is to be held at Harrogate from October 10-12. Two will be held on the opening day, October 11, one during the morning and the other in the afternoon. The morning of the second day will also be taken up in business.

The conference will open with an informal reception on the evening of October 10. The mayoral reception will he held in the Royal Hall on the following evening. The conference banquet and ball has been arranged for the evening of October 12.

During the morning of October 13, the National Executive Committee will meet.

Delegates' wives will be catered for while the business sessions are in progress. On the opening day there will be an all-day trip to York, and Harewood House may be visited on the Wednesday morning.

LAYCOCK—K-B LINK

A MANUFACTURING agreement

was signed last week between the Laycock Engineering Co., Ltd., and the Knorr-Brernse concern, Munich, Germany, concerning the manufacture in this country of K-B air-braking equipment for rail and road vehicles. The agreement also provides for collaboration on other K-B components.

The German company have 50 years' experience of air braking.

LIST 13 THIS MONTH?

T IST 13, which will contain the 755 vehicles which still remain to be sold under the Transport Act, 1953, is expected to be published towards the end of the month. This may he followed by another list, reoffering transport units in list 12 which fail to find buyers.


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