TICKET CONDITIONS CAUSE BIG LOSS
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CONDITIONS imposed by the North '....Western Traffic Commissioners on Ribble Motor Services, Ltd:,concerning the availabilityof week-end tickets will cause a loss to the company, of ,C11,000 a year. Losseswill also be sustained by Burnley, Nelson and Coffie Joint Transport Committee, and by Bolton, Accrington and Rawienstall Corporations.
This statement was made in an appeal heard by Sir Henry Wynne, in Manchester, last week. The appeal concerned 156 applicationsby the Ribble company.. •
New proposals were submitted on • behalf of the company for the con=
• sideration of the Minister of Transport-. . It was suggested that tickets valued at lid: should be valid for three calendar months and should be available for issue on mid-week andweek-end services. Moreover, all other tickets -• should be valid Only on the day of issue, and there should . be no. return tickets up to lid, during the mid-week . period.'
TROLLEY-CUM-MOTORBUS FOR GLASGOW.
GLASGOW Corporation's transport 1.—lconvener, Councillor William Reid, is arranging for drawings of the new trolley-cum-motokbus, which, it is stated, may run experimentally in the city, to be laid before the transport coirimittee, • • He expects to be able shortly to place • before the committee concrete evidence to the effect that the , buses can be produced in this country
with a considerable assurance of efficiency. Vehicles of this type are already in use in America.
RIBBLE STRIKE OVER.
THE strike ofemployees of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd„ reported in last week's issue, terminated a few days after it commenced.
110,004) GARAGE. PLAN.
BIRMINGHAM Transport Committee is to construct a bus garage in Yardley Wood Road for the accommodation of 150"-vehicles, at an estimated cost of E110,000.
DUBLIN TRAMS TO GO?
AS a preliminary, to the abandonment of Dublin's tramways, it is reported that double deck buses will be introduced in the near future. It is expected that 50 new buses will be working by the end of the year.
MAIDSTONE DISPUTE ENDS.
T MPLOYEES of Maidstone and LLADisirict Motor .Services, Ltd., have accepted the company's latest offer of increased wages as a settlernent of the dispute winch culminated in a lengthy
strike. '
Conductors with over six years' service will receive an extra 10. an hour, and those with up to six years' service, an extra id.' an hour. Drivers will he paid an additional .40.. an hour. Casual conductors' pay will be increased from 11.d, to is, an hour. The clean, jug staff will receive Is. an hour, and drivels and cOnd.uctors will be paid overtime after .10 hours.