LYTHAM ATTEMPT TO STOP CO-ORDINATION
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r LEVEN members of Lytham St. .I---■Anne's Town Council, opponents of a proposed local transport co-ordination scheme with Blackpool, under which it is intended to substitute buses for trams, have drawn up a petition to the Ministry of Transport, asking for an inquiry into the scheme and the borough's transport as a whole, before sanction is given to any application for borrowing powers.
The North-Western Traffic Commissioners are also to be requested to withhold any application by the council for the necessary licences for bus services until the result of the possible Ministry inquiry is made known, Aid. W. Hope, who has drafted the petition, was one of the prime movers in a project for selling the Lytham St. Anne's undertaking outright to Blackpool.
LANCS TOUR OPERATORS DIVIDED.
THE publicity drive by Lancashire Coach Operators' Extended Tours Committee for public support of its campaign against the restriction of fantail Lours is not likely to receive the backing of local excursion operators in the resorts of the red-rose county.
One well-known coach principal at Blackpool told a correspondent of The Commercial. Motor that these tours represented as big a danger to their excursion businesses as to those of south-coast operators, who had opposed them strongly. In consequence, they could hardly be expected to assist the tour operators in their fight against restriction.
TERMS OF BRISTOL TRAM DEAL.
LAST week The Commercial Motor announced Bristol Corporation's decision to purchase the city tramways, operated by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., for £1,125,000. Further details are now available.
Under the proposals, the tramways (to be abandoned within two years) and the company's city bus services would be jointly worked, but the 'company would manage the undertaking, in cOnjunction with a joint committee. This would be equally representative of the corporation and the company. The purpose of this body would be to consider proposals and to make recommendations to the company with regard to operation.
The existing fare protection afforded by the country services to the city services would be continued. The two patties would share, equally, the net -revenue, estimated at £150,000 a year.
BURY COMPROMISE AWARD ON WAGES.
ACOMPROMISE in the dispute between Bury Transport Committee and its employees has been reached in the award of the Tribunal set up by the Joint Industrial Council to consider appeals against the recent wage increases for municipal transport operatives.
Cleaners are to receive an extra ls. a week; adult drivers and conductors. Is. 6d. as from July 10; and all other grades under 21 years of age, is. as from the first full pay period in 1937. Adult drivers and conductors will receive a further Is. (making 2s. 6d., the full award)as from the first full pay period in April, 1937.
Bury Transport Committee's case was that it could not afford to meet the increases.
STOKE NEGOTIATIONS GO ON.
AT a recent meeting, the town clerk of Stoke-on-Trent reported on negotiations for the purchase of local bus undertakings. A committee of the corporation was empowered to continue the negotiations.
MR. STIRK ON FLAW IN RAIL EVIDENCE
AWEAKNESS in railway evidence was pointed out by Mr. J. HStirk, chairman of the East Midland Traffic Commissioners, at Nottingham, when Mr. William Truman, Shirebrook, applied for a short-term licence to operate from Skegness to Blackpool.
An official of the L.M.S. Railway Co. said that the railways svere 'anxious to co-ordinate road and rail, partiedlady in the Shirebrook district. Figures were produced, showing the number of passengers from Shirebrook and Warsop to Blackpool by and L.N.E.R. .
Mr. Stirk said that, according to the records, 243 persons travelled to Blackpool last year, whereas this year's figure was 127, comprising 78 rail passengers and 49 road passengers.' Mr. Stirk commented: "Does it not look as if people from the Shirebrook district are not going to Blackpool by any route? You are not blaming the road operators for that? "
A railway official added that competition from motorcycle combination outfits was being experienced, which was diverting traffic from the railways.
Mr. Stirk: " And from road operators as well."
Decision was reserved.
IS THERE A BUSINESS TO BUY?
AN excursion and tour operator who parted with his vehicle last November has nothing to sell, and the licence should be called in, instead of being transferred. This suggestion was made by Mr. P. Kershaw, for the L.M.S. Railway Co., at a sitting of the NorthWestern Traffic ' Commissioners, in Manchester.
Mr. H. Clark was making application, on behalf of the North-Western Road Car Co., Ltd., to take aver the Wilmslow and Knutsford business of Mr. F. Cooper, trading as the Wilmslow Motor Co. The Commissioners called for Mr. Cooper's books and deferred their decision until a scrutiny of the ledgers had been made.