Welsh Authorities Plan to Take Over Transport C HEPSTOW Urban District
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Council was informed, last week, by Mr. Vernon Lawrence, clerk to Monmouth County Council, that a conference of local authorities was held at Newport, in April, to discuss the grouping of bus services under a scheme of nationalization. A committee had been established to formulaic a scheme for control by local authorities.
The committee, which adopted a suggestion that the whole of Monmouthshire, including Newport. should be considered as an administrative arsd operational centre within the South Wales area scheme, said: "Newport would naturally become the administrative and operational centre, and all provision for major overhauls and maintenance could be centred there. Newport would be the headquarters of the county scheme."
Depots Classified Under the proposal, bus depots outside Newport would be divided into categories. Those with over 50 bdscs would be equipped for the exchange of units, for top overhauls and day-to-day maintenance, and would be the centres of areas of operation. Depots with 2050 buses would have facilities for dayto-day maintenance and would be the headquarters of operational sub-areas. Smaller depots would become outstations having no maintenance or operational responsibilities. .
According to Mr. Laslirence, the committee was now considering the constitution of a managing committee for the zone. A further conference would be called when recommendations were complete.
ss24 This is doubtless the scheme which was severely criticized by Mr. R. W. Birch, chairman of the South Wales Transport Co.. Ltd.. when, as reported in "The Commercial Motor" on May 28, he addressed the company's shareholders. RECORD ENTRY FOR THIS YEAR'S SHOW
THERE will be a record number of 1 exhibitors (420) at this year's Commercial Motor Show. Forty-eight makers will show 450 vehicles. Products of 56 bodybuilders, 14 trailer makers, 200 accessory concerns, 51 service-equipment makers, and 14 tyre manufacturers will also be exhibited.
The following is a complete list of the vehicles to be shocvn: A.E.C., Albion, Atkinson, Austin, Bedford, Bradford, Bristol, Brush, B.U.T., Chevrolet, Commer, Crossley, Daimler, David Brown, Dennis, Dodge, E.R.F., Foden, Ford. -Guy, Harbilt, Jensen, Karrier, Land-Rover, Latil, Leyland, Maudslay, Morris, Morris-Commercial, N.C.B., Panhard, Procter, Q, Renault, Reo, Scammell, Seddon, Sentinel, Standards Studebaker, Sunbearn, Thornycroft, Tilling-Stevens, Trojan. Unipower. Vulcan, Wilson-Electric and Wolseley.
INTERNATIONAL ROAD FEDERATION SET UP COLLOWING a meeting in Paris, on June 25, of the steering committee, consisting of delegates of the road federations of Franc e, Holland, Sweden, Switzerland and Great Britain, the International Road Federation (European and Eastern Region) was last week incorporated in London as a limited company without share capital. M. Georges Galiienne, of the Union Routiere de France, has been appointed chairolan of the I.R.F., of which the British Road Federation has become a founder member.
The next step will be the elaboration, in close co-operation with the Washington office of the I.R.F., of the future programme in both hemispheres.