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£94,000 shock but Sunderland defers fares rise
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A SPECIAL meeting of Sunderland Corpora
tion transport committee was called on Monday to consider action following the report by transport manager Norman Morton last week that a loss of £206,000 was expected for the year ending March 31 £94,000 more than had been estimated.
The committee, however, decided to defer until June the question of whether to raise the 4d. flat fare (3.3d. if tokens are purchased) to 6d.; to increase the rate subsidy from 4d. to 6d.; or to increase the flat fare to 5d. and the rate subsidy to 5d.
Next year the deficit is expected to increase to £210,000, although the estimated deficit would have been as high as £265.000 had the new flatfare, one-man bus system not been introduced.
The increased deficit was blamed on higher wages for bus crews, higher fuel consumption on the new one-man single-deckers and delays in the delivery of the new vehicles.
Meanwhile, following many complaints about the height of the steps on the new single-deckers, the committee approved the expenditure of £1,840 for lowering the steps on 20 buses. The entrance steps will be lowered by 2 in, and the exit steps by 1+ in.
B. C. Sellars has been appointed secretary of Southdown Motor Services Ltd., with effect from April 1 in succession to H. G. Turner, who is retiring. Succeeding Mr. Sellars as assistant secretary is N. A. L. Keeping, at present assistant accountant.
Colin Coe, of Great Bircham (Norfolk), a haulage contractor and director of the family company and also a local farmer, has been elected chairman of the Norfolk branch of the National Farmers' Union. At 32, he is the youngest chairman ever to be appointed of this branch, which has more than 4,300 members.
J. S. E. Scriven, transport manager of Joseph Rank Ltd., has been elected chairman of the Transport Managers' Club (London area) for 1967.
Forty years' service in the bus transport industry is the record of William Leese, general manager of North Western Road Car Co. Ltd. He was one of 16 people who received 40year long-service awards at a company ceremony last week. Mr. Leese started with North Western as a clerk in the engineering department at Stockport in January 1927. Leslie H. Smith, general manager of Leicester Transport Department, has been nominated by the city council as a member of the Buchanan Report Committee set up to consider public transport traffic problems in towns.
D. V. Phillips, managing director of Partco Ltd., has been appointed a director of the parent company. Quinton Hazell Ltd., and P. Dighton, a Quinton Hazell director, has joined the Partco board, following the acquisition of Partco as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quinton Hazel.
The Minister of Transport, Mrs. Barbara Castle, is to be the principal guest and speaker at the annual dinner of the Traders Road Transport Association on April 17.
A. E. Harrison has been appointed a director of Powder Couplings Ltd.
G. Kershaw has been appointed general manager of G. D. Peters and Co. (Engineering), Ltd., Windsor Works, Slough, Bucks.
Eric Luke has become publicity and public relations manager of Powell Duffryn Ltd. parent of the £54 million Powell Duffryn Group John W. Warner has retired after 20 years as general manager of Alkaline Batteries Ltd.
The University of London has conferred the degree of Doctor of Science (Engineering) upon V. E. Gough of the Dunlop tyre technical division for his work on pneumatic tyres and their relation to roads and vehicles. It is the first time that such a degree has been awarded in this field. M. A. Webster has joined the TRTA vehicle inspection staff as chief engineer designate with effect from February I. His responsibilities will include the control and inspection of the Association's inspection service. Mr. Webster has considerable experience in vehicle design, testing and maintenance. Since 1962 he has been employed by Mobil Oil Co. Ltd. as transport project engineer.
We regret to record the deaths of Herbert Legge, John William Pearson and Oliver Cromwell Bishop.
Mr. Legge, managing director of Legge's Haulage Ltd., Naylor Street, Liverpool 3, was 72. He founded the business almost 50 years ago.
Mr. Pearson, who was 77, had a haulage business after his Army service in the First World War until he retired about l years ago.
Mr. Bishop was a coach proprietor and claimed to have run the first coach trip front a country town to the seaside. He built his first bus body himself on a standard chassis with solid tyred wheels and operated a service from Coalville to Leicester for girls who worked in Leicester. He was 67.