RAIL AND ROAD SERVICES
IMPORTANT AMALGAMATION ANNOUNCED. tUnited Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, Jan. 2. The biggest development in rail and road services since the Act empowering railways to take np road transport was announced to-day. The Great Western Railway Company and the National Omnibus Transport Company reached an agreement by which a new company, with a capital ol £1,000,000, and on which each concern will be equally represented, with Sir John Jarvis as chairman, is being formed to operate road services in Devon and Cornwall, in conjunction with the Great Western railway services. “This is the first big effort to coordinate rail and road services,” says Sir .Felix Pole, the Great Western’s general manager. “We are negotiating .a similar agreement for South Wales. If these are successful other amalgamations will follow. Co-operation oi this sort indicates a cessation ot the battle road versus rail, and shows that the railway companies realise that road transport must remain as an adjunct to the rail services.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 6
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