"Unit Lists Should Have Been Smaller"
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LISTS of transport units should have LISTS
smaller and issued more frequently. There were many willing buyers at proper commercial prices, and if the requisite number of chances could have been given to small-unit buyers, disposal could have been speeded up, said Mr. C. Hinns, presiding at the annual meeting of the Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners' Association (Liverpool No. 1 sub-area of the Road Haulage Association), last week.
Mr. Hinns also criticized arrangements between warehousing companies and the Raw Cotton Commission whereby loads of cotton were being set up overnight. Apart from resulting in vehicles not being available for use the following morning, these arrangements placed operators in an invidious position regarding fire risk to other vehicles and premises.
Representations had been made to the Commission, and an assurance had been given that efforts would be made to reduce the number of set-up loads. Loads arriving up to 4.30 p.m. were now unloaded.
SEA AIR v. TROLLEYBUSES
AFURTHER attempt to obtain the council's approval to convert the Coast Road trolleybus route to motorbus operation is being made by South Shields Transport Committee, whose proposal to do so was referred back to them by the council some weeks ago.
Sea fog and salt dampness are reported to be corroding the overhead wires, and corrosion is damaging carbon inserts.
The transport manager. Mr. J. r.;rawford, has pointed out that receipts )n the service average approximately I5d. a mile, against running costs of !4.2d. a mile.
NEW CHELTENHAM STATION NORK on a new bus station in the
YV centre of Cheltenham is now well n hand, and it is expected to be cornActed before Christmas. Buses using he station will include the Greenline ervices of Bristol Tramways and ;arriage Co., Ltd., and those of Stratord upon Avon Blue Motors, Ltd., nd Birmingham and Midland Motor )mnibus Co., Ltd. More than 100,000 assengers will pass through the station ach week, MORE SPECIAL A GRANTS ,PECIAL A licences have been ) granted by the Western Licensing uthority to the following:—
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S.U.T.s' BUSY WEEK-END
SOME 8,000 people were carried to various holiday resorts by Sheffield United Tours, Ltd., last week-end, the start of Sheffield's annual holidays. Blackpool was the most popular destination.
Twelve coaches operated by Mr. G. C. Littlewood, who was recently given permission to run an express service to Torquay, carried 400 passengers to the West Country resort.
Long-distance services operated by Sheffield Corporation were augmented, and additional services were provided for Hope Valley and for the gliding contests at Great Hucklow.
A DAY LATER
BECAUSE of the delay caused by August Bank Holiday, the next issue of The Commercial Motor will be published a day later (August 7).
Stop Sales," says Mr. Davies
D EPLY1NG to a suggestion by 1-1, Mr. Aubrey Jones, a Conservative Member of Parliament, that legislation to allow greater elasticity in the disposal of transport units should be introduced (The Commercial Motor. July 16), a Labour M.P., Mr. Ernest Davies, in a letter to The Times on Tuesday, agreed that amending legislation should be introduced, but not on the lines suggested. All that was necessary, he stated, was to stop the sales.
"The Government should now put an end to disposal," stated Mr. Davies. "If they consider it impossible to terminate sales immediately they should fix a time limit after which sales should cease, and then introduce legislation to permit the [British Transport] Commission to continue to operate all unsold units.
If the Government refused to accept that denationalization had failed, and insisted on introducing private capital into the public sector of road haulage. the Act should be amended to enable the Commission permanently to retain a majority share in the new companies formed to take over that successful section of road haulage which private enterprise had shown no desire to purchase.
It would be better, he stated, to leave British Road Services in control in this way than to continue to. force sales on an unwilling market.
THREE MORE PAY CLAIMS
AN application for a substantial increase in wages is to be made by transport workers in the milk dittribufive trade.
At a meeting on August 18, the Co-operative Union will reply to a demand for an advance of 15 per cent. in wages for transport employees in retail co-operative societies.
An application is to be made for increased wages for transport workers covered by regional agreements in the distributive coal trade.