PRIVATE STATION FOR NEWCASTLE?
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L-1. A S a direct sequel to the recent court
-case between bus operators and Newcastle Corporation, regarding standage fees for the use of the Haymarket bus station, it is understood that the operators are seeking a site to establish their own station. If present negotiations prove successful, it is intended by the operators' to abandon the Haymarket premises.
In the court case at Newcastle Assizes, the corporation was empowered to charge standage fees for the Haymarket, despite a protest by the operators that it was a public highway.
ROAD SCHEME TO HELP SOUTH WALES COACH TOURS.
ASCHEME which should benefit coach and bus proprietors in South Wales, in encouraging road travel to the South Glamorgan coastal resorts, is being prepared jointly by South Glamorgan local authorities and Glamorgan Town Planning Committee.
The plan is to build a coastal road around South Glamorgan, with no buildings between the sea and the road, and with public right of access from all points of the road over the lands between the highway and the marine front. This road will run from Cardiff to Porthcawl and beyond.
• • LEYLA,NDS FOR AUSTRALIA.
THE Metropolitan Omnibus Co., of Perth, Western Australia, is probably the largest private bus-operating concern in the Commonwealth, and its fleet of about 50 vehicles consists entirely of Leyland product. Mr. G. David, the company's managing director, recently paid a visit to this country and, after inspecting the latest types of passenger vehicle, placed an order with Leyland Motors, Ltd., for six Lion oil-engined buses, four of them to be equipped with 34-seater streamlined bodies by Strachans (Successor, Ltd., Acton, London-, W.3. The bodies
for the other two vehicles will be built in Australia.
These are the first oil-engined vehicles in the company's fleet, and they will have to operate under difficult conditions, as high temperatures are prevalent, for which reason the English. built bodies have been designed with a view to maximum ventilation.
COMBINE'S HUGE TRAFFIC:
SPEAKING at the annual' general r/meeting of shareholders of Thorna Tilling, Ltd., Mr. John F. Heaton, the chairman, said that the group of asso
elated companies carried more than 800,000,000 passengers a year, whilst, for each fatal accident to a passenger, they transported over 50,000,000 persons.
He also stated that proposals had been made that Thomas Tilling, Ltd., should take the initiative in forming a
London Transport Stockholders Association, but the directors felt that there was not yet any need for such a body.
DARLINGTON'S TRAFFIC UP.
THE annual estimates of Darlington Corporation's transport department state that 2,000,000 more passengers have been carried on the trollcybuses during the present financial year, and a profit of £2,572 will be made. -MINISTRY' cErzusFIGURES CORRECTED IN analysing the 1934 census figures of hackney vehicles in our Special Passenger Vehicle Number, dated February 8, we called special attention to a surprising decrease in the recorded number of 49-56-seaters in service and anticipated that this might prove to be a mistake.
A re-examination of the figures by the Ministry of Transport has now disclosed the fact that the number of hackney vehicles (other than tramcars) recorded in the census for the London County Council should be 14,065 and not 13,703 as there printed. This addition of 962 vehicles—Which are all of the 49-56-seater class—makes necessary a number of alterations in the tables published in our issue of February 8.
Thus, instead of a decrease, there was last year a fractional increase of .06 per cent, in the number of hackney vehicles in service, the reduction in the number (941) of small-capacity publicservice vehicles being more than offset by the increase in number (974) of medium and large-capacity vehicles. The corrected figures are given in the accompanying table.
DUBLIN BUS WORKERS STRIKE.
QN Sunday morning, a complete stoppage of passenger-transport services in Dublin wa.s caused by a lightning strike of the employees of the Dublin United Tramways Co., Ltd. The dispute arose as a result of the dismissal of a driver, a member of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers Union, for alleged dangerous driving.
On Tuesday, the Government decided, under the Industrial Courts Act, to set up a court of inquiry to investigate the origin of the dispute. The court, after meeting representatives of both sides, decided in favour of the company, but its decision is not legally binding.
• A conference of urban and rural district councils in Co. Durhem is to be held at Durham to discuss the subject of bus services and fares.