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Another £6m. .a Year on London Fares ?
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LAST Monday. a new charges scheme affecting fares -11—t on the London Transport Executive road and rail services was put before the Transport Tribunal by the British Transport Commission. Announcing this, Lord Latham, chairman of L.T.E., said that in the past year the financial positiort of the Executive had deteriorated to the extent of £5.9m. and that a deficit of £3m. would be shown for 1952.
The Executive's costs, he said, were now 130 per cent. higher than before the war, whilst fares, which had gone up four times since 1947, were now 71 per cent. above pre-war level. The increases proposed would bring them up to 84 per cent, above pre-war.
The proposals are that the 3d. ticket should cost 3id., that the 6d. one should be raised to 7d., the 8d. to 81d., and the 9d., 10d. and all others thereafter by Id.
On Green Line services, where a minimum of Is. applies on the inner zone and 9d. elsewhere, additions of Id. to single fares and 2d, to returns are suggested. The early-morning 3d. fare will become 4d. if the proposals are approved. The 2d. and .5d. tickets, which cover 50 per cent. of all ordinary journeys made on London Transport services, will remain untouched.
At the present time, said Lord Latham, economies in the region of £750,000 a year were being made. The fare adjustments asked for in the London area would produce another am. a year, compared with a total fares bill of £85m.
The first of a number of A.C.V. Regal Mark IIIsingle-deckers were shipped recently to Luanda, Poriuguese West Africa. They have a wheelbase of 21 ft. 6 ins. and are fitted with Park Royal bodywork. The finish is in blue
and ivory.
MORE ‘LEYLANDS FOR YUGOSLAVIA ft NOTHER order from Yugoslavia 1-1 has been gained by Leyland Motors, Ltd.—the third within 13 weeks. The B.S.E.. Co., Ltd., also responsible for the previous contracts, has now demanded 14 Comet 90 oll-engined machines. Five will be long-wheelbase lorries with 2-ft. drop-sided bodies; eight will be dump trucks with all-steel bodies; and the remaining Comet will be a tractor to he supplied with an 3-10-ton semi-trailer.
BREACHES OF ACT IN WALES
THESouth Wales Licensing Authority said last week that it was becoming increasingly apparent that the Road Traffic Act had been broken in that area ever since it was passed, and particularly since the war.
Two operators making applications stated that they had worked a service under contract, and that the fares were paid by a company and not by the passengers. This practice had continued until last November, when a warning was issued that it was wrong. Passengers now paid their own fares.
ANOTHER KIND OF HOLIDAY INCREASED costs of goods caused 1 by rises it. the costs of wages, transport, fuel and steel were difficult to pass on to consumers, particularly in the export markets, said Mr. J. L. Brockhouse, chairman and managing director of J. Brockhouse and Co., Lid., at the company's annual meeting, last week.
" Unless there is a holiday in applications for wages increases," he added, " we are likely to have matters corrected for us in an unpleasant way by unemployment. There is no doubt that the nationalized industries are the worst offenders in maintaining the spiral of inflation and, as they enjoy monopolies, they pass on their increased costs without regard to the overall consequences."
BOMBAY HAULIERS WANT INQUIRY
A REQUEST to the Bombay State ti Government to appoint a commission to investigate road goods transport and to suggest measures of improvement was made recently.at a meeting of Bombay hauliers. It was stated that the commission should be presided over by a High Court judge.
The Deputy Minister of Public Works, Mr. B. J. Patel, has said that the Government could not agree to postponing nationalization of road haulage by at least three years.
METALASTIK IN FRANCE
A S from January 1, Metalastilc, Ltd., PA has entered into an agreement with a French concern for the manufacture of Metalastik products in France and the French territories.
Removers Ask Home Office to Act
THE Home Office is being asked by the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers to enlist the aid of the police in preventing the illegal transport of goods for hire or reward by C-licence operators.
It is often difficult to prove that transport has been undertaken for hire or• reward, but the Association believes that the police would be able, where this work had been done, to show that the insurance policy had been invalidated. The C-licensee could then be prosecuted for operating a vehicle without proper insurance.
The Association thinks that action along these lines would help to safeguard the interests of bona tide removers, who are said to suffer unfair competition by C-licence Holders who do household removals by subterfuge.
TWO DRIVING MIRRORS?
THE compulsory provision of two driving mirrors on all types of commercial vehicle is desired by Malden and Coombe Council. It has decided to ask the London Council of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents to press the Ministry of Transport to introduce a law to this effect.
EAST KENT TOURS FOR 1953
THE preliminary 1953 tours programme of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., includes six trips to Luxemburg, Switzerland and the Austrian Tyrol. Destinations of home tours include Scotland, North Wales, the Lake District, Devon and Cornwall, Blackpool, and Norwich and the Derbyshire Peaks.