ALDERMAN ATTACKS YORK OPERATIONS
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RING a speech concerning the L./joint transport undertaking of York Corporation and the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., at a meeting of York City. .Council, on Monday, Alderman W. Horsman asked thether it were not a fact that, in private, the suggestion had been made that the corporatiomshould dispose of their share of the system, and whether £100,N10 was mentioned, as the sum which the West Yorkshire corapany would 'offer.
Alderman Horsman suggested that many changes had been made since the corporation and the company formed their joint committee, but the council had not been consulted about them. He suggested that the ultimate purpose of the changes was to enable the company to obtain complete control of transport.
Alderman Hors/Tian moved that the transport committee should give a. full
reportof its work on the joint committee for the past 18 months, and that it
should prepare a financial statement showing income and expenditure for each quarter. This resolution was referred to the transport committee.
NEW TILLING CO. FOR BRIGHTON.
WITH a capital of £400,000, a cornVV pany named Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Co., Ltd., has been registered to acquire the bus business carried on by Thomas Tilling, Ltd., within a radius of 10 miles of the Old Stehle, Brighton. The directors are Messrs. John F. Heaton, T. Wolsey, F. P. Arnold and J. H. Infield.
BIGGER PROFIT FOR LINCOLNSHIRE CO.
AN increased profit was earned during the year ended September 30 last by the Lincolnshire Road Car Co., Ltd., a member of the TillingB.A.T. group. In the past year the revenue amounted to £211,419, as compared with £163,204 a year earlier, the balance being £19,210, against
£16,150. In addition, £11,643 was brought in. The sum of £10,000 has been placed to reserve, and a dividend of 10 per cent, has been declared.
POTTERIES MERGER COMING?
ALTHOUGH the statement has been neither confirmed nor denied by the partiesconcerned, it is reported that Associated North Staffordshire Bias Proprietors, Ltd., Hanley, is negotiating for control of Cooke, Robinson and Co., Ltd., Burslem. The latter company was registered in 1929, and was formed to take over a private partnership firm established in 1919.
HIGHER WAGES IN LONDON.
WAGE increases for trolleybus drivers and conductors, tramwaymen, and conductors and general workers of the country-services department have been announced by London Transport. Tramwaymen and •trolleybus operatives are to receive an finmediate increase of 2s. a week, making
their wages a minimum of 69s. a week, rising in two years to a maximum of 78s. a week. Another increase of 2s. a week will be made next October.
In addition to the increase in wages, the workers in the country-services department will receive 12 days' holiday with pay, instead of six.
ALL OILERS FOR BRADFORD.
CONCERNING a proposal to convert 19 of Bradford Corporation's buses from petrol to oil fuel, at a cost of £10,000, it is stated that this is part of a general scheme for the gradual adoption of oil engines for the whole of the fleet. At present, 33 of the 97 buses are oilers.
LAST OF NOTTINGHAM TRAMS.
ARLY in the New Year, Nottingham's last tramways will be abandoned. Seventeen oil-engined buses will he delivered in January, whilst last Friday the transport committee ordered 18 further oilers.