BOOKING "COMBINE" IN LONDON
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WHAT purports to be the beginning VI' of a chain of booking offices is the registration of a new company under the style of Travel and Libraries, Ltd., 41, Goldhawk Road, London, W.12. The capital is £1,000, and the directors nre Messrs. T. Morris (of the 'West London Booking Office and chairman of the Booking Agents Association), R. A. Butt (secretary of the B.AA.), C. R. Taylor (Highgate Booking Office), and L. Major (until recently a booking agent in Saltram Crescent, W.1).
Applications to be taken into the scheme have, it is understood, been received from agents in various parts of London. An increase in the number of directors and in the share capital is already contemplated. The secretary of the company is Mr. Butt, TROLLEYBUS OPPOSITION.
QALFOR 0, lirmston and Stratford 1....)Councils may, it is reported, oppose Manchester Corporation's Bill seeking trolleybus powers.
reat Grimsby Street Tramways Co. is seeking powers to run trolleybuses in Cleethorpes.
MONOPOLIZATION AT HAND
IN an address to Bangor Rotary Club, Mr, H. W. Mills, Bangor area manager of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., said that the time was not far distant when transport boards would be formed in each diatrict to control all forms of transport, as in London, and contemplated in Liverpool and Glasgow.
The system of examination of vehicles was now so stringent that small operators who had previously carried out their, own maintenance had, in many cases, found it impossible to comply with• the law's requirements.