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No .steps are to • be taken by Hartlepool Corporation to run a bus service to West Hartlepool until in . inquiry has been held by the Ministry of Transport into a request for the removal, of. restrictions on the use of buses on the, intended route. The agreement between West Hartlepool Corporation and Hartlepool Corporation
• whereby the former operated a service and shared, profits with the other municipality ended at the beginning of this month.
" MOST MODERN FLEET"
IN the forthcoming coaching season, I 'Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., will have
the Most fleet Of any large-scale . • operator in the country,' claimed Mr. H.
BottOmley, general manager, in a review . of Ribble's 1,164 buses and coaches, which has been circulated to employees. "We owe this to our restraint, at the end of the war, in not rushing in to buy new vehicles of post-war construction butof pre-war design," he stated.
WEST BRIDGFORD LOSS?
THE accounts •for 1952-53 of West Bridgford Transport Department are expected to show a loss of £9,000, the district auditor, Mr. I. N. McF. Moyle, reported to the council last Friday.
A disturbing feature in the accounts was the amount of £671 paid to employees under the sick-pay scheme. This sum was 20 per cent, higher than in 1950-51 and indicated that sick absences averaged nearly two weeks in the year for each employee.
REPORTS ON VEHICLES BY LAW CULL details of the legal limits bind' ing American hatiliers are given in " Federal Regulations of Transport in the U.S.A.," a publication of the Organization for European Economic Co-operation and obtainable from the Stationery Office at 8s. An interesting aspect is that the law requires a driver to submit a report on the condition of his vehicle at the end of each day's work.
The book is a report by a group of European experts and shows how transport problems are solved in a system of federated states. .
1953 "TRADER HANDBOOK" OUT
ANEW feature of Trader Handbook, the 1953 edition of which has just been published at 12s. bd. (13s. by post) by the Trader Publishing Co., Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.1, is a table giving data for the servicing of the front ends of various vehicle.i. Castor, camber, king-pin inclination angles and amounts of toe-in for 12 makes of commercial vehicle are given. In the buyer's guide section, the space devoted to spare-part suppliers has been _enlarged and now covers nearly 170 different makes. All the usual features have been revised.