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FURTHER strenuous opposition to the closing of a number of roads in Lancashire to public service vehicles was offered last week, at the resumed inquiry by a Ministry of Transport inspector. The commencement of the hearing was reported in our issue dated July 1,7.
Lanes County Council seeks to close certain unclassified roads in the Preston, Fylde and Ulverston districts. The objectors included Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., Commercial Motor Users Association, Associated Road Operators, Scottish Commercial Motor Users Association, Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association, Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., and 17 other companies.
Mr. W. T. Monckton, K.C., for the Ribble and 17 other concerns, declared that the orders sought by the county council were not consistent with the provision of proper road-transport facilities. The council had neglected to consider the interests of operators. It was, he added, wholly unreasonable to prohibit all public service vehicles when it was necessary to stop only a few. Counsel declared that, if an order were made, the prohibited roads should be marked.
LONDON ORDERS LEYLAND " GEARLESS " BUSES.
ONDON TRANSPORT has recently
ordered 100 oil-engined buses from Leyland Motors, Ltd., and 10 of them, although similar in outward appearance to the others, will be equipped with the maker's hydraulic torque converter.
This contract marks, we are told, the first occasion on which the Board has entrusted the building of both bodywork and chassis to one maker, although, in the case of trolleybuses, the Leyland concern is also building a number of bodies for the vehicles of this type which it is supplying for service in London.
TROLLEYBUSES—" IN PUBLIC INTEREST."
I N the public interest, the Minister of Transport hopes that the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay local authorities and the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Light Railway Co. will fully investigate the replacement of trams by trolleybuses. The three parties are favourably disposed towards this development.