PROVISIONS OF SALFORD CORPORATIONS BILL.
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THE Parliamentary committee of Lanes County Council reports that the Salford Corporation Bill. seeks Powers for the running of trolley-buses and the abandonment of the tramways. The corporation takes powers in !Clause 33 to provide and run trolley-buses within a radius of seven miles from the Pendleton town hall, along the whole or any part of the route of all or any of the tramways, and, with the consent of the Minister of Transport, along any other street.
By Clause 42, the corporation will be enabled to apply to the Minister of Transport for a provisional Order to authorize the use of trolley-buses on any other street within the radius of seven miles.
CONFERENCE SUGGESTION TURNED DOWN.
THE Morecambe authority has received
a suggestion from Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., that a further conference should be held with the object of bringing about a scheme of transport coordination. A similar request has been made to Lancaster Corporation.
The Morecambe body has informed the company that it is unable to approve the holding of a conference until the question of the Protection to be afforded to its services (at present under consideration by the North Western Traffic Commissioners) has been determined.
L.P.T. BILL AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
THE law committee of Westminster City Council reports that the London. Passenger Transport Bill is, as amended in Committee, to be again considered by the House of Commons on February 7. The Bill includes the pro. vision sought by the City Council for its separate representation on the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee.
GLOUCESTER BUS POSITION.
GLOUCESTER City Council, last week, passed a minute requesting the special sub-committee to investigate offers for the purchase of the municipal transport undertaking. The report is to be made to a special meeting of the council to be held at an early date. As announced some time ago in This Crommer6ial Motor, the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co. Ltd., and Red and White Services, Ltd., have offered to
• acquire the undertaking.
ANOTHER BUS AMALGAMATION.
IT is announced that Westcliff Motor.
Services, Ltd., has provisionally reached an agreement to purchase the undertakingof Rochford and District Motor Services, Ltd., Southend. It is anticipated that the former company will take over the Rochford company's services early this month.
FEWER LONDON TAXIMEN.
LONDON taxicab drivers are drawing the attention of the Home Secretary to the fact that admission of new recruits to their ranks is endangering the Position of licensed drivers.
The Public Carriage Office is asked not to admit new applicants, and it is requested that licences should be granted to existing applicants for only six months. It has been stated that, in December last, there were 11,354 licensed drivers and 8,121 taxicabs in the London area.
MIDDLESBROUGH APPROVES MERGER WITH BUS COMPANY.
MIDDLESBROUGH Town Council has formally approved the proposed merger between the municipal-transport undertaking and, we understand, United Automobile Services, Ltd.
Mr. J. Petrie, general manager of the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., informs us that his company is not involved in the proposed deal, whilst Mr. A. T. Evans, secretary and traffic manager of United Automobile Services, Ltd., states that he has no information on the subject. PROTRACTED NEGOTIATIONS BRING FARES AGREEMENT.
A GENERAL agreement covering the
fares to be charged and the conditions to be fulfilled with regard to private-party work has been reached between the operators in the West Midland area and the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd.
Several conferences have been called by the British Road Traffic Co-operative Association to consider the question, and a fortnight or so ago the delegates agreed upon the desirability of fixing and adhering to minimum rates and a sub-committee was appointed to meet the representatives of the " Midland Red" and the railway company on the matter. At this meeting it was agreed that the minimum rate should be 10 per cent, below the standard fares approved by the Commissioners, and that the maximum commissions for agents should be 5 per. cent.
The outcome was the conference with the Traffic Commissioners reported on r page 869 of this issue. It was decided to reconsider the question of what should be the difference between privateparty and stage-carriage rates, and that the percentage should be fixed by the operators in each district.
A further conference on the matter was held at Dudley on January 26, when Mr. S. W. Nelson, clerk to the Commissioners', was in the chair.
Here the scheme met with general approval, but it was opposed by Mr. S. Johnson, of Stourbridge, the largest independent operator in the district, who is not a member of the Association, on the ground that it meant a further curtailment of the operators' liberty.
Subject to the fixing of the rates the agreement was adopted.
STATION SCHEME DROPPED.
AFTER considering the scheme for several years, the Bridlington municipal authority has decided that it cannot proceed with the proposal to construct "a central bus station adjoining the railway station. The London and North Eastern Railway Co. was co-operating.