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9th May 1952, Page 35
9th May 1952
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

"THE introduction by the Government

of legislation to amend the Trans port Act, 1947, would not dispense with the need for an impartial inquiry into transport, said Mr. C. E. Jordan, chairman of the transport committee of Birmingham Chamber of-Commerce, at the annual meeting of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, in London, last week.

He was proposing a resolution that an inquiry into the operation and structure of the British Transport Commission should be held. He thought that a comprehensive examination of British Railways should be conducted to ascertain how the system could be modernized and reorganized.

He thought that the occasion mightbe the right moment to warn the Government that, before imposing a levy on trade and industry to help the railways, a most careful examination of its implications should be carried out.

The resolution was referred back to the executive council for further consideration.

CURRENCY RESTRICTIONS RAISE MORALE URRENCY restrictions had adversely affected Continental touring, but had also given some benefit by encouraging people who could not afford to go on tours by themselves and now felt themselves to be on equal terms with those who could. Mr. Bernard Cotter, of Messrs. Cotter's Motor Tours, Glasgow, made this statement to the Scottish Licensing Authority last week.

The firm had applied to run the following Continental tours from Edinburgh:—France and Switzerland, 14 days; Swiss "Riviera," 14 days; Lourdes and Paris, 16 days; Bavaria and the Austrian Tyrol, 16 days; the Low Countries, Germany and Denmark, 16 days; Spain and Italy, alternating 2I-day tours.

Objections were lodged by the Railway Executive and Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd.

Mr. Cotter said that the firm wished to run tours from Edinburgh so that inconvenience to people from that city who wished to join tours and had to travel to Glasgow could be removed. Mr. -J. B. T. Louden, for Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., suggested that present facilities were no source of inconvenience.

The application was approved in principle. The extent of the grant is to be announced.

DAY TRIP TO FRANCE ON B.M.M.O. TOUR

A SEVEN-DAY tour to Canterbury I-1 and the south-east coast, on which passengers may make a day trip to France from Folkestone, has been introduced by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus.Co., Ltd.

This tour is being run from Leicester. Passengers from Birmingham may join the coaches at Coventry. _Margate, Broadstairs, Ramsgate,. Hastings, Eastbourne, Dorking and Windsor are included in the itinerary.


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