No Conversion from Contract to B Licence AAILNTHORPE, haulier Mr.
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Peter 111 Harrower, was unsuccessful in his application before the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, at Kendal last week, for permission to convert a contract A licence to a limited B. The present licence limited traffic to the carriage of electronic engineering components for a Sheffield company— Mr. Harrower wanted to make up his loads with products from the Libby factory at Milnthorpe. Mr. Hanlon said there must be evidence of need before he could grant such an application, and added that the mere fact that Libby's could make up the load, and, perhaps, obtain the service at a cheaper rate, was no ground at all. Objectors to the application were British Road Services and British Railways, together with four local hauliers, R. 0. Hodgson, E. Nelson and SOns, J. B. Hudson, Ltd.. and J. Wardley and Sons. Mr. I. McHugh, for all the objectors, said three of them worked for Libby's and could produce figures showing a decrease in work over the oast two years.. The firm were not claiming to be short of transport and the application appeared to be a matter of convenience for Mr. Harrower.
CONSULTATION ON B.M.M.O. MOTORWAY SERVICES A if EMBERS of the Transport and !NI General Workers' Union have been assured by Mr. S. Ikon, No. 5 regional passenger group secretary of the Union, that the proposed high-speed coach service of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., 'on the London-Birmingham motorway, will not be introduced without joint consultation. . Writing in the Union's journal on the subject of motorway coach services, Mr. Ion says: "Our chief concern will be in connection with the small firms opera,ting private hire and excursions, who will be likely to use these highways. If thereis to be no restriction on speeds, the safety factor will demand public service vehicles of the latest design, but in many cases the vehicles are just not in this category, the standard of maintenance is far below that of the large and wellestablished operators and there is little supervision."
BUSES BEAT TRAMS
BUSES are slowly ousting trams in Lisbon. Lord Rathcavon, chairman of Lisbon Electric Tramways, Ltd., says in his annual report that bus passengers 'last year increased by 7.39 per cent., whereas tram traffic declined by 0.37 per cent. The total increase in traffic was 1.48 per cent. The company estimate that they now carry each day more than the entire population of the city of Lisbon. The fleet consists of 281 buses (of Which 152 are double-deckers) running 210 route-miles and 517 trams and trailers operating 140 route-miles.