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En Extended Seaside Tours for 0.A.P.s Granted by Commissioners

13th February 1959
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

BECAUSE they had a much smaller field to cover for passengers and fewer picking-up points than large operators, R. H. Harrison (Morecambe), Ltd., were successful when they appeared before the North Western Traffic Corn. missioners last week.

The company wanted two new extended tours to Eastbourne and Paignton, with four . departures each, to he operated only this year. The proposed inclusive charge was £10.

Asked why the tours were for only one year. Mr. R. Harrison, a director, said there was an understanding that they should be applied for annually.

Two pensioners, Who said the price of the tours was within their income range, told Mr. S. Moss, for Florence Motors, Ltd., that to pay £12 for a similar Florence tour would be beyond their 'leans.

"Traffic Has Fallen" Mr. R. R. Renton, Florence's managing director, said the number of passengers his company had taken on Eastbourne and Paignton tours in 1958 was lower than in the previous year. This was probably due to Harrison's intervention.

Mr. Moss added that there would now be a succession of similar applications under the guise of pensioners' tours. Once the availability of fantail tours operation was affected the pattern which had been evolved over the past 20 years would be changed.

For Harrison's, Mr. T. Booth said there was a need for their tours and if they could operate economically at £10 there c4 was no reason Why they should not do so. The objectors, he pointed out, gathered passengers from Carlisle to Manchester. but Harrison's operated only in the Morecambe area.

Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said the parties were in two main categories— the objectors were large-scale operators with an extensive gathering ground, whilst Harrison's were much smaller.

DORMOBILE WAS A "BUS" .L'INIES totalling £30 were imposed at .1 Leyland, Lanes, last week on William Edward Coiling, Rufford, near Orrnskirk. for using his Dormobile to take several of his friends to work at Leyland.

The prosecution said that as the men shared the cost, Coiling was using the vehicle as a stage or express carriage.


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