BIG JUMPS IN GLASGOW'S PROFITS.
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AT its meeting on February 23, Glasgow Corporation transport finance subcommittee considered tenders for the supply of oil and petrol for the buses, and agreed to recommend acceptance of the following, which represent the lowest offers :-1,800,000 gallons of oil fuel at lad. per gallon from the Associated British Companies. and 908,000 gallons of motor spirit at is. id. per gallon from Russian Oil Products.
The municipal transport revenue for the current year, from June 1 to February 12, shows an increase of over £100,000 as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. The figures are as follow ;—Tramways, £1,589,032 (increase, £38,432); buses, £585,849 (increase, £54,217); and underground, £78,869 (increase, £7,666). The total revenue was thus £2,250,750, showing an increase of £100,315.
INTER-AVAILABLE SEASON TICKETS.
A 'I' a sitting of the Northern Scotland
Traffie Commissioners held in Inverness last week, a scheme providing for the inter-availability of season tickets on the services operated by Messrs. Macrae and Dick, Inverness, and McBra,yne, Ltd., Glasgow, on the route between Inverness and Fort William, was sanctiOned. Mr. Riches, the chairman, remarked that the new system, which had taken a long time to come into effect, would prove of great convenience and value to the travelling public.