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Big rise in Manx o-m-o working
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• When fares increases were sought by Isle of Man Road Services Ltd. for its stage network throughout the island, Mr. William Lambden, general manager, told the Manx Road Transport Commissioners that in the past 18 months operation by one-man vehicles had risen from something like three per cent of the scheduled mileage to 39 per cent on school days and 100 per cent on winter and spring Sundays. The return on the capital employed had been just on three per cent and the current application was designed to bring rates into line with those charged in the Isle of Wight last summer, except in lower values where some concessions would be given.
All the wage economies brought about by one-man operation had been absorbed by cost increases other than wages. The Commissioners approved the application subject to its introduction from July 1, or whenever wages were increased.