Swansea Wins Fares Appeal
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L'OLLOWING an appeal by Swansea I Borough Council, the Minister. of Transport has made an Order on the South Wales Traffic Commissioners to reduce fares on a stretch of the stage service run between Swansea and Margam by the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd.
The appeal was directed against fares on the bridge-route service which related to journeys between Swansea and points beyond Briton Ferry, and to which the company had applied their Scale 7 rates on the basis of the longer mileage between the points in question on the main route.
The Minister found no circumstances of a kind that would justify the calculation of the fares on the basis of the longer mileage. He has ordered them to be cut to the rate which would have been fixed had Scale 7 been applied on the basis of actual mileage.
94% OF FUEL CONSUMPTION fl CCORDING to an estimate sub/*I mitted in Paris on Tuesday by the Petroleum Emergency Group of the 0.E.E.C. Oil Committee, Europe will have 94 per cent, of its normal fuel requirements between April and June. It is now calculated that 85 per cent, of normal supplies will be available during the present quarter, compared with an earlier forecast of 75 per cent.
These estimates presuppose that the Suez Canal and the Syrian pipelines remain closed.
GERMANY BUYS BRITISH
AS forecast exclusively by The Commercial Motor on November 2, 1956, B.M.C. B-type 1,500 c.c. engines are to be installed in German Matador and Viking commercial vehicles. An initial contract for the supply of 5,000 B.M.C. engines has been placed, it was reported on Tuesday.