FORTHCOMING EVENTS BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS
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Northern.
THREE days will be occupied by the sitting which opens at Newcastle next Tuesday, the week's work being completed by a sitting at Middlesbrough on Friday. All classes of licence will come under consideration at Newcastle, excursions and tours predominating. The applicants are mainly independent concerns and several of the excursion applications are either entirely new or embody modifications on the 1931 044 licences. There will be opposition by the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., when Messrs. Orange Brothers apply for a new express service between Glasgow and Scarborough. Apart from this, railway opposition is levelled at some of the excursion applications of local operators.
The Middlesbrough sitting is not likely to be so difficult, although it will be taken up mainly with applications for new services. Northern Scotland.
AT Perth next Tuesday and Wednes day a fairly easy programme will be disposed of, including applications for licences and backings for all classes of service. There appears to be no opposition to applications made by the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., but an interesting fact is that every application lodged by Perth Corporation is faced with a representation by the Transport and General Workers Union. Yorkshire.
MUCH business has been listed for
completion at the sitting arranged to commence at Sheffield on Tuesday next. The main concern will be excursions and tours and against most of the applications there appear several objectors, comprising the railways and rail way-associated bus companies. It is surprising to see what an effort the railway companies are making to oppose the continuance of last year's excursion licences, even when no modifications at all are being requested. Although the opposition looks formidable, the probability is that it will not delay the proceedings very much.
South Wales.
ARRANGEMENTS are being announced well in advance for the sitting to be held at Pontypridd com mencing oe April 18th. About 200 applications are already listed for hearing and most of them have been entered by the small independent operators whose position has been considerably stabilized since early in 1931. Large numbers of these applicants are not opposed in any way.
Liberty Motors, Ltd., of Cardiff, has applied for a new express service between Cardiff and Harrow, and is opposed by Black and White Motorways, Ltd. Another difficult case is that of the route between Caerphilly and Pontypridd, on which Pontypridd Council and Western Welsh undertaking are competing for licences, the application of the latter concern being a new one.
A good many of the excursion appli
cations are being opposed by the railway interests and by well-established independent concerns.
West Midland.
AT Coventry next week a large group of applications by the "Mid-land Red" undertaking, mainly for unmodified stage-service licences, will be heard. The same company will oppose Mr. M. Moreton and others in connection with local stage and express services.
The L.M.S. and G.W.R. companies will, at this sitting, oppose the Red House Garage Co., Ltd., Coventry, in respect of the continuance of express services between that town and Bournemouth and Weston-super-Mare.
East Midland.
NOTTINGHAM has been chosen for next week's sitting. All types of service will be dealt with, and, up to the present, little opposition to applications is anticipated. The United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., appears as an objector to the application made by Black and White Motorways, Ltd., Cheltenham, in regard to an express-service backing for the Cheltenham-Kettering route.
Committee of Inquiry into London Coach Services.
THE committee of inquiry into London
motor-coach services will commence its public hearings on Monday, April 18th, at the Middlesex Guildhall, Westminster, London, S.W.1. Further details concerning this matter appear on page 252.
Western.
NEXT Wednesday and Thursday, at the Bath sitting, the stage-service applications of the Bath Tramways and Motor Co., Ltd., will be dealt with, also some excursions and express services by the "Midland Red," Black and White, and Bristol Tramways undertakings, as well as by various smaller operators.
On the second day the Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd., will be heard in regard to a number of new applications for excursions and tours from centres in the Southern Area. Also the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., will apply for half a dozen new excursion licences from Gateshead, etc.
South-Eastern.
THIS week's arrangements comprise mainly the hearing of express-service applications from independent concerns ; most of them are either entirely new or embody modifications on the 1931 licences. The municipalities of coastal resorts continue to make representations In regard to local conditions, and there Is some serious opposition by the Southern Railway Co., Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., etc.
Metropolitan.
IN London next week's sitting will, as usual, occupy three days ; excursions, tours and express services will be the main issue, and most of the applications are not controversial. The London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., however, is opposing quite a number of excursions from the numerous and widely separated centres around London.