REDUCED FARES TO COASTAL RESORTS
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IT is announced by London Coastal "Coaches, Ltd., that a general reduction in fares to many coastal resorts and provincial towns will take place on and from Monday next (September 9). It is also of interest to note that, although there will be a reduction in fares, the running times will remain the same as for the summer, until October, when winter times will come into operation.
SUCCESSFUL TESTS OF NEW INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSORS.
FOLLOWING the success of expertmeats conducted last week in the presence of Ministry of Transport, British Broadcasti a g Corporation, Post Office a n d London Passenger Transport Board officials, at Hampton Court, there is a possibility that interference s u p pressors may soon be fitted to overhead trolley wires, instead of to the vehicles themselves. The new suppressors take the form of
condensers and replace the heavy current choke coils used on the trolleybuses. They will probably be fitted to standards at 200-yd. intervals along the road.
ALEXANDER ACQUIRES NEW SERVICES.
I T is announced that the Aberdeenshire hire service of Messrs. G. and R. Smollett, Raeburn Place, Aberdeen, has been purchased by W. Alexander
and Sons, Ltd., of Falkirk. Eight routes are involved and it is understood that the Falkirk concern will take over the 1-tinning of the services at the end of September.
FURTHER MEETING OF DUBLIN CONCILIATION BOARD.
ANOTHER meeting of the Dublin Conciliation Board, which was set up in May last to work out the details
of the agreement concluded between the DAT T. • concern and its workers after the strike, was held in Dublin last week. Representatives of the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union, and the Dublin United Tramways Co. attended. No statement was issued.
THE ULSTER TRANSPORT BOARD STARTS WORK.
THE first meeting of the Ulster Transport Board was held on Thursday of last week, when preliminary arrangements were made for the setting up of -the framework of the organization. It is understood that the first undertakings to be taken over by the Board will be the London, Midland
and Scottish Railway, Great Northern Railway, Co. Down Railway, Ii. M. S. Catherwood, Ltd., and the Belfast Omnibus Co., Ltd.
So soon as these companies have been absorbed, the smaller concerns will be brought under the control of the Board. It is expected that the majority of these will be taken over by the end of the year. Steps are being taken to appoint an appeal tribunal.
• SALFORD WORKERS REFUSE TO JOIN THE T. AND G.W.U.
ADIFFICULT situation has arisen ue to the refusal of 50 employees of the Salford transport department to join the Transport and General Workers' Union. An ultimatum has been issued by the T.inion to the effect that, unless the men do so by to-day, the other drivers and conductors will decline to work with them as from September 9,
TIME-TABLES BANNED BY RAILWAYS
THE September issue of Hutchinson's A to Z Time-tables has just been
published. It is interesting to note that an announcement has been made to the effect that the sale of these timetables has been prohibited on the bookstalls of the four railway companies. The reason given by the railway companies for this ban is that information of competing services is contained in the tables.
In a statement issued by the publisher. it is said that it will continue to make the tables more comprehensive and to give full information which it believes the public requires. It feels that it is in the general interest to publish the relative times and costs of travel by all the methods of transit, which, it says, should not be competitive but co-operative.
N.U.R. CAMPAIGN: SUCCESS IN THE WEST.
IFT is reported that great success is 'attending the Devon and Cornwall campaign for the organization of road passenger-transport workers in the National Union of Railwaymen. It is said that enthusiasm for the campaign has been shown amongst employees of the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., also amongst the employees of the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., in Cornwall. The campaign follows the companies' decision to recognize the Union,
TRANSFER OF GREEN BUS SERVICE NOT YET DEFINITE.
FOLLOWING the announcement in the issue of The Commercial Motor dated June 28 last, that negotiations were proceeding between the Green bus undertaking, which operates certain services in Leamington and Warwick, and the Midland Red company, it is now stated that there is no prospect of an immediate transfer and that nothing further is likely to he done until the September board meetings.
ADELAIDE ADOPTS TROLLEYBUSES.
A CHANGE is to be made in the .tAtransport system of Adelaide, South Australia. The Municipal Tramways Trust has decided to introduce trolley-buses on the city tramway and two other routes.
The tramway services affected are from Port Adelaide to Largs Bay and Semaphore, and between Port Adelaide and Rosewater. The Trust is further considering the running of trolleybuses to other suburbs. The vehicles, which have not yet been ordered, are to be of the latest double-deck type.
NEW. TICKET MACHINE FOR MIDLAND RED.
THE Midland Red concern is testing, at Worcester, a new type of ticket machine which is said to be fool-proof and prints the fare as it is issued.