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ACOACH operator who applied at Bristol, fast week, for permission to serve the city's two football grounds from new estates at Keynsham, admitted that he had been running such a service for three years. Mr. C. L. Norman told the Western Traffic Commissioners that as soon as he realized recently that his operations were illegal he put in his application.
Objectors were the Bristol Omnibus Co., Ltd., British Railways and Mendip Queen Coaches, Ltd. Mr. A. Cox. for Mendip Queen, said that his company should get any licence which was granted.
Refusing the application, Mr. S. W. Nelson, chairman, commented: "The only evidence that such a service is needed is the success of your illegal operation. Such evidence cannot be accepted." Transport, he had given another deputation the same reply.
Yet he felt the time was now ripe for the construction of the bridge. For the past year or so, members of the Association in Lincolnshire had suffered a general decline in trade through a reduction of capital work in that area. and through stock-piling of sand and gravel.
He was advocating a toll bridge on the ground that many economies would be made by operators availing themselves of the bridge. BIRMINGHAM BUS DECISION NAEMBERS of Birmingham Transport lvi Committee will shortly be visiting bus manufacturers to decide on the type of vehicle they will require to Start replacing their present fleet in 1961. A special sub-committee is considering four proposals from members of the council -retention of the present double-deckers, longer double-deckers with no standing accommodation, single-deck crush-loaders, and one-manoperated single-deckers for fast limitedstop journeys.