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Forced to Become Public Companies
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BUS undertakings in Ceylon have to become public companies this year, otherwise they will not be granted route licences. At least 85 per cent, of the issue of share capital of each company will have to be held by citizens of Ceylon.
The Commissioner of Motor Traffic has stated that whereas passenger traffic was rising by 20 per cent, each year, the number of buses was increasing by only 11 per cent. It was therefore necessary for the large companies to expand their fleets.
580,006 MILES WITH CD. LUBRICATOR ALEYLAND bus fitted with Clayton Dewandre chassis-lubrication equipment has recently been taken out of service. deer 580.000 miles, by the
Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd. • The installation was made in 1938 and the operator states that the unit gave no trouble during its long period of use.
Meet being removed from the chassis, the equipment was returned to the maker and, on bench test, was found to hawe a performance in accordance with the standards prevailing at the time of its manufacture. There was no appreciable wear in any of the internal parts.
LOWER FARES ON TOURS APPROVED IN Birmingham, on Tuesday, the West 1 Midland Licensing Authority, granted the application by Messrs. Yeomans Motors, of Canon Pyon, Hereford, for a reduction in fares on many excursions and tours. After announcing his decision, Mr. W. P. James called Mr. Geoffrey Yeomans, a partner in the firm, to the witness box, and asked for an assurance that reasonable conditions of employment and proper maintenance of vehicles would be observed.
Mr. Yeomans replied: "We shall pay rates comparable, at the moment, to those of other operators in the vicinity.
can also assure you that our vehicles are being and will be maintained in the
best condition possible." • The hearing of the ease was reported in"The Commercial Motor" last week. Mr. D. E. Skelding hotly contested the application on behalf of two other private coach operators. He claimed that the applicants' proposals would have wide repercussions and that they were " improper."
The Government's Failing
." THE year just past has shown that
the present Government is no more aware of the importance of road transport than its predecessors. It stresses the imperative need for industrial efficiency on the one hand while on the other makes certain that road vehicles—which carry 70 per cent, of all goods and on which productivity is thus dependent—are forced to provide a service which is much less cheap and much less efficient than it could be."
This statement is contained in the editorial of the latest issue of the British Road Federation's monthly bulletin. It adds that if emphasis of the Government's artificial attitude towards road transport were needed it would be provided by its failure to take a step which was merely administrative —raising the out-of-date 20-m.p.h. limit on heavy goods vehicles.
EAST KENT WARMS UP BECAUSE the vehicle was fitted with jack-knife doors and heating equipment, passengers travelling on the first of 29 new Guy Arab 56-seat doubledeckers of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., found it much warmer than earlier types. The bus was put into service last week and is to be employed on • country !routes because of the extra comfort which it affords.
A Gardner 8.4-litre oil engine is fitted and the bodywork is by Park Royal. The bus is 27 ft. long and 8 ft. wide.
FOR NOVICE AND EXPERT 'LIVE years have passed since the first 1 edition of the late L. D. Kitchin's work, " Bus Operation," appeared. In that time, the book has become a standard text-book for the student of road passenger transport. It has become, too, a work of reference to the executive in the industry.
The third edition, published by flub and Sons Ltd., Stamford Street, London, S.E.I, at 12s. 6d„ has been revised in the light of current conditions. Well illustrated by up-to-date photographs and diagrams, it remains a readable, informative work.
The narrative style employed helps the novice to understand the principles of the subject, and ensures that the reader already well-versed in the operation of public road passenger services, will not find it heavy and uninteresting.
TEMPORARY IMPORTS: NEW ORDER ' NEW regulations providing for thetemporary importation of commercial vehielev without payment. of.. customs duty and purchase tax came into force on January I. They are known as the Commercial Vehicles (Temporary Importation) Regulations, 1952.
The new regulations consolidate similar provisions contained in the Commercial Road Vehicles (Temporary Importation) Regulations, 1949, and regulations referring to aircraft.