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THE MONOPOLIES and Merg Commission has given a rel vely clean bill of health to four major bus undertakil which it has been investigai over the past months.
In its report published Wednesday this week, it $ that Bristol Omnibus, Trent, diff City Transport, and A Midlands PTE all achieved a c siderable measure of succes: conserving manpower lev and "in general there is mud commend in their efficienc said the Commission.
Nevertheless, there is so for improvement, and the M has made 43 detailed me( mendations.
It says WMPTE should notice to terminate its el neering premium payment, undertake a more stringent view of non-manual staff quirements.
Cardiff should review methods of present account and statistical information management purposes, exen more effective supervision of engineering manual workfol secure accurate work ti recording for job cards, and velop and apply techniques assessing supply and dernaric The MMC wants formal th year agreements betwe National Bus subsidiaries shire counties, and subject adequate performance by operators, for counties to m the whole cost after cric subsidy on uneconomic servi they want to keep on so grounds.
But it concludes that neithe the two undertakings' actit amounted to an abuse of monopoly, and was not agai the public interest.