B.M.M.O. Costs Up £400,000 a Year E.ROM next June, the operating costs
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of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., will. be £400.,000 a year higher than they were at the same time last year.
Mr. D. M. Sinclair, general manager, made this statement last week when he revealed that application had been made to the Licensing Authorities for permission to increase fares.
No change is proposed in fares up to 34el. A Id. increase is proposed .in the 4d, to 8d. rates, Id. from 81d. to Is. lid,, and 2d. from 2s. _Workmen's and miners' returns from 4d. to 5+d. would be raised by id., 6d. tb 84d. by Id., 9+cl. to 111d. by lid., Is. to Is. Md. by 2d., and 2s. and over by 3d.
M.P. WANTS OIL INQUIRY
SUPPORT for Birmingham Transport Committee's demand that the recent increase in the price of fuel should be referred to the Monopolies Commission has come from Mr. Victor Collins, Labour M.P. for Shoreditch. Mr. Collins was to ask the president of the Board of Trade yesterday to place the activities of the British oil companies before the Commission.
The question of fuel prices will come up again next Monday, when Mr. Harold Wilson (Lab., Huyton) will ask the Minister of Fuel and Power to institute price control.
CALL FOR FUEL TAX CUT
A MEMORANDUM is being handed 1--V next Monday to the Financial Secretary to the Treasury on the subject of the tax on fuel used in buses, and its effect on fares and the cost of living. The memorandum is being prepared by the Municipal Passenger Transport Association, Public Transport Association, Passenger Vehicle Operators Association and Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association, whose members own about 50,000 vehicles.
PIECE RATES FOR BUSMEN?
THE possibility of new and simplified wages agreements for busmen, based on piecework with higher rates for movement than for layover, was mentioned by Mr. W. I. CroslandTaylor in his presidential address to the Omnibus Society in London last week. He also suggested a heated and ventilated bus built like the pressurized cabin of an aircraft.
RADIO CUTS MILEAGE
nUR1NG a 13-week trial, ambulances and sitting-case cars fitted with two-way radio by Bedfordshire medical officer of health carried 1,039 more patients and covered 2,428 fewer miles than in the corresponding period in 1953. Mobile radio is to be provided for the ambulance service in the northern part of the county at a cost of £4,011.