NO WIVES AT CHEAP FARES"
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" NO wives to te carried at cheap
fares' is the ruling of the North Western Traffic Commissioners in respect of the application by the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., for permission to grant certain free passes.
Mr. W. Chamberlain, chairman of the Commissioners, complains of being misreported when it was implied that he would, if he found that he had the power, stop the applicant company's gifts of free travel to employees. The practice of the North Western concern was to give employees occasional free passes on the regular services and a seaside pass for the employee and _ his wife once a year. The Commissioners apparently feel that this concession is not in the interest of the general travelling public.
The new decision reads:—" The modification relating to special fare facilities for employees of the company and their wives is granted in respect of employees only."
55 L.U.T. WORKERS SERVE OVER 30 YEARS.
A CELEBRATION dinner was given, ti last week, at Leigh, by Sir Arthur Stanley, C.B.E., CE., M.V.O., chairman of the Lancashire United Trans-port and Power Co., Ltd., Atherton, to 55 employees who had been in the company's service for over 30 years.
Mr. J. R. Holt, secretary, referred to the progress of the company over the past 35 years, and said that the number of passengers carried during 1936 was almost 44,000,000.
Mr. E. H. Edwards remarked that the L.U.T. was one of the first companies to give holidays with pay to all employees and to pay double time on Christmas Day. He announced that the directors had approved a pension and life-assurance scheme for the staff and employees, which they hoped would be in operation on January 1.
West Bromwich Transport Committee has decided to replace trams by oil-engined buses.
Leeds Corporation has appointed a sub-committee to consider matters in connection with the establishment of a bus station.
FIRST MANCHESTER TROLLEYBUS TEST
h ANCHESTER'S first trolleybus alunderwent routine tests last Monday, by courtesy of Mr. C. I. Baker, Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation's transport manager. As the service wires are not ready at Manchester, it was necessary to hold the tests at Ashton.
The test machine was a Crossley four
wheeled 56-seater. Altogether 40 vehicles will be supplied for the opening of the service, a number being 56seaters and others 68-seater sixwheelers.
Manchester's Ashton Old Road trolleybus service will be in operation in about three months and the Ashtox New Road service will follow later