M.H.C.S.A. APPROVES AMALGAMATION
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THE National Council of the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, which includes representatives of some 20 effiliated associations throughout the country, has approved the principle of amalgamation, as one body, with the Road Haulage Association and the Commercial Motor Users Association.
NORTHAMPTON TO REORGANIZE.
MORTHAMPTON Transport Corn! lmittee is to seek the sanction of the East Midland Traffic Commissioners to reorganize its services of single-deck buses. Some time ago, certain of the services were discontinued as being unremunerative, but as revenue on the main routes now shows an upward trend, it is felt that the services can be made to pay.
The routes will be circular ones linking up the outlying districts of the town and connected with the services radiating from the centre. The reorganization will be regarded as experimental for a period of six months.
LIMITING STOPS IN LONDON.
()N Wednesday, London Transport introduced an experimental scheme of special stopping places on a section of a certain route, under which buses will stop to pick up and set down passengers only at the appointed places.
COUNCIL SEEKS ROAD-RAIL INTER-AVAILABLE TICKETS.
THE transport committee of Blyth Corporation has asked the town clerk to approach the bus operators and the London and North-Eastern Railway Co. with a view to their taking steps for the institution of inter-available tickets to and from Blyth.
KE IGHLEY JOINT TRANSPORT RESULTS ENCOURAGING.
EIGHLEY S rates are to be re
lieved to the extent of nearly 5d. in the 2 by a grant of 24,860 from the profits of its share in KeighleyWest Yorkshire Services, Ltd. The full details of th6 financial position of the local passenger-transport services have not yet been disclosed, but Keighley was the first municipal authority to enter into an arrangement with a private company for the control of passenger transport.
It was understood that on the formation of Keighley-West Yorkshire, Ltd., the corporation took from a rate reserve fund a sum of £21,000£11,000 for new rolling stock and approximately £10,000 for old debts— and, last year it was stated that the council intended to restore the reserves before devoting profits to the assistance of the rates. It is believed that £4,860 does not represent the full profit on the undertaking.
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