BRITISH TRANSPORT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20263, 24 May 1929, Page 11

BRITISH TRANSPORT.

large: motor combine.

CENTRALISING OF CONTROL., LONDON, May 15. With tlie object o! organising and expanding road motor services, "British Roadways Organisation, Limited," ill being formed, with a capital of £500,000, amalgamating all the existing long-dis-tance routes operating between- London and the north of England. The founders state frankly that they intend to create a 100 per cent, monopoly, and to become powerful enough to "absorb and eliminate any competition." ~

Centralised control is aimed at, enabling the diversion of coaches where traffic is very heavy, to eliminate competition. Four or five coaches, "with 20 passengers, can now be observed at slack periods. "Cambrian Coaches" has completed :i merger of numerous motor-coach concerns in South and South-West England, The new company will bo styled "London and Southern Counties Motor Services," and will have a capital of £350,000. The coaching station will be situated cm the former site of the CitySouth London tube station, near Euston.

Sir Henry Fowler, chief mechanical engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company, in a lecture to the Royal Empire. Society, emphasised the importance of motor transport in the development of the Empire, particularly in the little-settled areas of Australia.