"Don't Get Taken for a Ride"
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QLOGANS reading "Don't let nationalization take you for a ride— you would find it very .expensiW," appeared last week, on buses operated by Birch Bros., Ltd., on the, LondonBedfordshire services. Another poster, reading "If this bus is nationalized to subsidize British Railways, fares will rocket," is also being disillayed.
This theme was repeated at a meeting of East Suffolk County Council's finance committee, which passed a resolution supporting opposition to the proposed take-over of existing road passenger services. The proposals were described as an attempt to handicap the public as a whole. A conference between representatives of the Road Passenger Executive and members of East Suffolk County Council has recently been held. Joining forces with the opponents of nationalization has resulted in severe reprimands being administered to two Newcastle Labour councillors.
Referring to the northern • area scheme, Mr. J. W. Womar, chairman of East Midland Motor Services, Ltd., said at the company's annual general meeting: "Even those local authori. ties whose allegiance is normally towards the left are very far from enthusiastic and have entered a host of objections; they had been hoping that an area scheme would still leave them in the saddle, or at least in the picture, but they now find that the scheme provides for the maximum degree of centralized ownership, with control from London, and next to none locally."