Brighton to Sell Bus Undertaking?
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A SPECIAL committee of Brighton
Transpoq Committee are examining the possibility of selling the town's bus undertaking. Aid. A. V. Nicholls, chairman of the transport committee. said the future of the undertaking was in the hands of a special committee which was now negotiating. The council would be given information on the negotiations as soon as possible.
This information .• was givenat a meeting of the town council when a proposal to spend £100,000 on 20 new motorbuses came forward. Aid. E. Simms asked for a reference back for further information.
If there were an amalgamation with either Southdown or Tilling, the corporation would have only a small share in the undertaking—not more than 15 to 20 per cent. It would be better to sell out, he said.
Ald. Simms said 12 of Brighton's 53 troliey.buses were in the depot. doing nothing." Three of their. 24 motorbuses Were unlicensed.There were always. 23 vehicles doing nothing." It seemed extraordinary that. they wanted to buy new vehicles and ii was an inopportune time to spend £100,000.
Aid. Nicholls pointed out that "the assets of the undertaking. would be taken into consideration at the time of any future merger." The amendment seeking to refer the matter back was defeated.
NEW EDUCATIONAL COURSES A T a dinner given by the Institute of PA the Motor Industry in London last week, Mr. Stanley S. Dawes, president. announced that two further full-time residential courses had been arranged with the College of Technology. Loughborough.
One was designed largely to meet the demands for a two-year course from overseas applicants in countries where post-apprenticeship higher technical education was available. The course would cover advanced automobile engineering subjects, motor trade practice, management principles, industrial psychology and economics. workshop organization and administration, sales promotion, office organization and administration, principles of accounts and costing, and law.
The other was a more intensive oneyear course. It was for graduates with degrees and diplomas in science subjects, holders of Higher National Certificates in engineering, or an equivalent examination, and persons nominated by their employers as suitable.
AFRICAN ROAD CONGRESS
A N African regional road congress. 1—% organized by the road federations of East, Central and South Africa, with the co-operation of the London office of the International Road Federation, is to take place in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, from May 27-30.