AN AMALGAMATION AFOOT IN MANCHESTER.
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The Regulations of the Traffic Act Cause Local Coach Owners to Consider Their Common Interests.
AN important amalgamation, which it is hoped may be followed in other leading cities and towns, is in course of preparation by a number of prominent Manchester motorbus and coaching undertakings, with a view to obviating the problema which will be created for the individual proprietor when the new Traffic Act comes into force
The scheme, which is quite apart from the co-operative working which, under the auspices of the. C.M.U.A., has been carried on during the year by virtually all of the owners in the cities of Manchester and Salford, has been largely sponsored by Mr. T. Quinn, manager of the Central Motor Coach Services.
Mr. Quinn told a representative of The Commercial Motor that already 10 concerns in the city, representing about 40 coaches, had decided to form the nucleus of what it is hoped will develop early next year into a private company.
It is felt that when the new Act comes into full operation the Area Commissioners willbe unlikely to eoneider the separate applications of alarge number of owners of, say, two or three machines, and to this end it is proposed to form an amalgamation which will be able to put before the official joint applications for a number of licences in exactly the same way as a big company will do.
Other proposals are a central clearing office with a chain of booking offices in the suburbs, formed from existing booking offices, the pooling of available business, so as to reduce unremunera five working with partly filled coaches, and the provision of a fleet of emergency vehicles for rush periods.
Mr. Quinn is hopeful that others will follow the Manchester lead, in the interests of the small man throughout the country, and that in the near future a number of other local owners will join the new amalgamation.