EL TAX "A PUBLIC SCANDAL" T today's high costs, the
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great l• majority of those of the corny's stage-carriage services which vide the only transport to what
would otherwise be isolated communities in remote country districts, are inevitably run at a loss. To such communities, transport is an everyday essential to norNal life, and I regard it as little short of a public scandal that oil fuel taxation should exact toll on so relentless a scale."
Mr. R. P. Beddow, chairman of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., made this statement at the company's annual general meeting in Preston, last week.
Every endeavour was being made within the organization to secure greater revenue through the expansion of facilities, and to achieve further economies.
Among major developments planned were the establishment of a new bus and coach station in Skelhorne Street, Liverpool, and the provision of additional accommodation at the company's bus station in Tithebarn Street, Preston.