Trent fares rise refused
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• An application for general fare increases ranging from Id to 6d by the Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd. has been rejected by the East Midlands Traffic Commissioners.
The Commissioners said they were disturbed by the company's slow progress in the introduction of one-man bus operations. They said that because of this, the company had not been able to absorb the proportion of increased costs which could have been expected.
They did, however, accept that the company should withdraw its fares concessions available to schoolchildren aged 14 and over. In May 1969, he said, the applicant firm had decided to alter the nature of its business and had accepted various, different work: in April of that year it began to carry in a substantial way for Inveresk, the clause period having expired.
Pollock complained that it had lost £36,000 worth of annual paper carriage to Dalkeith, who had taken over this work at the invitation of the customer.
Mr. J. B. T. Loudon, for Dalkeith, claimed that it was within its rights to carry paper because it came within its normal user.
Mr. A. B. Birnie ruled that he must know how much paper was being carried and what availability Pollock had to carry the lost traffic. Mr. Campbell Wardlaw claimed that the application could not go forward since it was grossly misleading. Paper must form the greater part of the business and so there should be republication.
Mr. Birnie said the position was that the paper carried by the applicant had risen dramatically since the spring of 1969. The amount now carried for one firm alone could not, in his view, be permissible under the terms of the licence. Quite clearly, he said, there would have to be republication in As and Ds.