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ANapplication by Northampton Corporation for permission to deliver parcels just outside the borough boundary has been refused by the East Midland Traffic Commissioners. A corporation representative explained that parcels were often accepted for addresses which were later found to lie outside the boundary, often just on the other side of the road.
Mr. J. H. Stirk, Chairman of the Commissioners, said that the corporation certainly could not take its vehicles outside its area, but there was nothing to prevent a conductor walking to deliver his parcel. Conductors, he said, should be instructed where the boundaries are, and parcels for outside the area should he refused. Opposition was entered on behalf of the United Counties Omnibus Co.
TRANSPORT HELPS KEIGHLEY'S RATES.
THE new rate for Keighley receives the benefit of £12,639 from transport profits, due to the half share which the corporation holds in Keighley-West Yorkshire Services, Ltd., in conjunction with the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., and a third share in -the Keighley-Bradford service which is operated by the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd. The rate relief is equal to 9.33d. in the E.
THE WAKES WEEKS' BUS PROBLEM. THE Lancashire Wakes Weeks' coach traffic has presented many problems to the North-Western Traffic Commissioners. It came up, in an acute form, again at a public sitting at Manchester Town Hall, last week, when a railway representative produced the somewhat startling claim that this was in the nature of mass transportation and a type of traffic for which there could be no better form of catering than rail travel'.
Mr. G. H. P. Beanies put forward these views in objecting to further road facilities being allowed to the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., for the satellite towns of Manchester to the North-East—Stalybridge, Dukinfield, Hyde and Ashton.
There were references to long lines of coaches, and Mr. Beames said that the Commissioners had, year by year, dealt generously with the coach operators, but there were constant applications for more and more coaches.
For the applicant, which asked for two vehicles, in addition to its present ten, and this for ten seaside resorts, Mr. Herbert Clark stressed the point that a large section of the public was not rail-minded but road-minded. It was a case of ten coaches to serve a population. of 100,000, and of the 800 or 900 who were too late to book for the coaches by far the larger proportion still went to the seaside by road, going by buses to Manchester and there queuing up for the express bus services to the seaside. Decision was reserved.
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