YORKSHIRE WANTS MORE MONEY FOR ROADS
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STRONG support for a move by West Riding County Council urging the Minister of Transport to give the county a bigger road-improvement programme is expected to come from Yorkshire's Members of Parliament, who are to meet a depatation from the council to discuss plans for it joint effort to persuade the Minister:
The delegation will urge that top priority be given to a Doncaster bypass (estimated to cost nearly £4m.). strengthening weak bridges and general improvements and diversions on the Great North Road, and a main eastwest road across the Riding NO DECISION AT EXETER THE report of Exeter Transport Committee on the approach made by the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., about the acquisition or leasing of the city transport undertaking was not submitted to Tuesday's meeting of the council as had been expected.
Art official of the corporation told The Commercial Motor that the matter was still under examination, and that the report may be presented at the next council meeting.
Full details were given in The Commercial Motor on June 25.
OBITUARY
WE regret to record the death of MR. RADFORD WETTON. Mr. Wetton. who was a partner in the coach business of Messrs. R. Wetion aild Son, Brimington, Derby. ran the first horsed-bus between Brimingion and Chesterfield some 53 yeai-s ago, and operated the first motorbus in the district in 1912. He was 81.