Southend. Scheme to Go Forward?
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DECENT discussions between officials of Southend Transport Department and of Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Services, Ltd., are believed to have been devoted to the question of the coordination of services in the area. Previously, efforts to introduce joint working in the transport department's ..a.zea have been nullified by the presence .of City Coach Co., Ltd., which was opposed to co-ordination.
Now, however, Westcliff-on-Sea has acquired City Coach Co., Ltd., and announced its intention to take over services, first on January 1 and subsequently on February 1. Final permission for the transfer had not been granted early this week. • IIARRINGAY TRAFFIC RULES
NEW arrangements have been made . by the Metropolitan Police for dealing with vehicles serving Harringay stadium and arena.
,Vehicles will not be allowed to wait in any street in the vicinity; passengers must be set down and picked up inside the car. parks. All vehicles must enter the parks from Green Lanes by the north or south entrances to set down and pick up as directed, and public service vehicles must leave by Finsbury Park Avenue only.
Diversions may be made by the police at any time. Vehicles left unattended in any street, without permission, are liable to removal to the nearest police station.
PETROL REBATES: "GREAT INJUSTICE"
THE condition of petrol distributors requiring that, to be entitled to a rebate, customers must contract with
• one supplier, waS described by Mr. T. Lawrenson, chairman of the road transport section of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, last week, as "a great injtistice."
It was felt that if the companies incurred extra expense in delivering small Consignments of fuel, it would he a simple matter for' them to make a
• condition as to the minimum quantity • which they were prepared to consign. The Chamber had ccimmUnicated With a6 the Traders' Road Transport Association, which was dealing with the matter at a national level.
RADIUS LIMIT FRUSTRATES DENATIONALIZATION IT had been made quite clear to the 1 Government that any mileage restriction on free hauliers would frustrate the selling-back of nationalized businesses to private enterprise, Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, chief executive officer of the Road Haulage Association, told members of the Blackburn sub-area of the R.H.A.
"Although the claims of the Association might be looked upon as being somewhat high, the principles of the [denationalization) policy are in line with our understanding of the Conservative Government's views," he said.
NOVEMBER REGISTRATIONS
REGISTRATION figures for new vehicies for November Iasi, excluding cars and motorcycles, showed a fall of 1,299 as compared with the previous month. Agricultural tractors (£2 class) declined in number from 2,133 to 1,382, and hackneys from 539 to 313. The only class which showed an increase was the " electrically propelled" with 123 against 93 for the previous month. Details appear in the table below.