SALFORD COMMITTEE FAVOURS BOARD
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ro Wednesday, Salford City Council X./was recommended, by the transport committee, to approve the principle of the establishment of a joint municipal transport board for Southeast Lancashire and East Cheshire.
The transport committee passed a resolution, last week, agreeing to the principle and recommending that four civic representatives should be delegated to attend a conference of ths undertakings concerned, with instructions to prepare a scheme for the
formation of a board. The approval of the principle by the council would not definitely commit the authority to the scheme.
TROLLEYBUSES FOR GRIMSBY?
A TROLLEYBUS system may be PA.inaugurated by Grimsby Corporation, which has decided to abandon the tramways. If the tramways were perpetuated, new track at a cost of e25,000 and new rolling stock, costing a considerably larger sum, would be required. The cost of operating trolleybuses is to be investigated.
BRIGHT HOPES FOR M.T. CO.
MOST of the applications of the M.T. Co. (Motor Coaches). Ltd., to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, for increased facilities• • have been granted, although the company has not been permitted to carry passengers from London to Canterbury on its service to Ramsgate. The Metropolitan
Commissioner's rulings enable the decisions of the South-Eastern Commissioners, reported in our issue dated March 15, to be put info effect.
Mr. F, A. Min, a director of the company, infoimed a representative of The Commercial Motor, on Tuesday, that he was hopeful of the prospects for the forthcoming season.
DEATH OF MR. C. C. TAYLOR.
WE regret to announce the death of Mr. C. C. Taylor, managing director of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., who joined the company in 1911 and built it up to the position of the fourth
largest undertaking of its kind in the country. Mr. Taylor, who was 45 years of age, was a Chester magistrate and, in 1926, was Mayor of that city.
DUBLIN STRIKE MOVE FAILS.
r-IN Monday last, the employees of ''..athe Dublin United Tramways Co., Ltd., rejected the proposals of Mr. Sean Loin-ass, Minister for Industry and Commerce, for the settlement of the strike, which .has been in progress for several weeks.
REDUCING COMPETITION IN YORKSHIRE.
WITH the consent of the Yorkshire W Traffic Commissioners, the Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd., is to take over the express services from Holmfirth to Blackpool and Morecambe, and excursions and tours, run by Wilson Haigh, Ltd. The latter concern has 16 vehicles a nil a capital of £7,500.
PROTECTION BY PROHIBITION
T"E prediction that the time would come when complete prohibition of the picking up and setting down of passengers on tramway and troIleybua routes would he in force throughout the country was made by Mr. C. Phythian, appearing for Doncaster Corporation, at an appeal hearing, at Doncaster, on Monday.
Doncaster Rural District Council appealed against the decision of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners not to reduce the fares or grant return fares on the corporation's Doncaster-Edenthorpe bus route. Mr. Phythian said that all the corporation desired was protection for its trolleybus service, but had maintained right from the inception of the Road Traffic Act that the only satisfactory means for obtaining protection was by the complete prohibition which he had mentioned.
He mentioned the return of 7.75d. per vehicle-mile which had been stated to he that of operators on the route. Doncaster Corporation, he declared, which paid trade-union wages and observed the hours and conditions of work imposed by the Act, dare not put buses on the road at such a ridiculously low figure. Mr. Phythian ilso protested that the corporation had received no notice of the appeal.
Making the charge that sweeping statements were made at Traffic Commissioners', and appeal proceedings and went by unchallenged, he suggested as one of the drawbacks that evidence• is not called on oath.
"If the Traffic Commissioners conducted their inquiries half as thoroughly as the Minister of Transport, there would be fewer appeals," said Mr. R. Bowers for the rural district council.
TROUBLE IN SCOTS INDUSTRY?
I NDICATIONS point to forthcoming trouble among the employees of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and its subsidiary companies. A conference on wages and conditions between representatives of the companies and men, at Edinburgh, last week broke down, and the men's representatives intimated that they would report to headquarters and ask permission to take a ballot vote on the question of strike action.