Partial Grant fo r Scottish Tours
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I N Edinburgh last week Hutchinson's
Coaches (Overtown) Ltd. was partly successful in an application to the Scottish Traffic Commissioners to run tours from Wishaw to selected points in Scotland.
The managing director, Mr. Sam Anderson, a haulier who took over the Hutchinson business two years ago, gave evidence of demand by parties for whom private hires had been made to ' have the company undertake the organization and so convert the hires into public tours instead. Witnesses contended that the Central S.M.T. Co. Ltd., objecting, did not offer sufficient variety in its tours. For Central S.M.T. it was said that the present application repeated one which had been refused in 1960 and that there had been no change in the circumstances; a grant would lead to abstraction. The chairman of the Scottish Traffic Commissioners, Mr. W. F. Quin, said that Central S.M.T. seemed to prefer longer tours to the shorter afternoon tours which Hutchinson's proposed. There appeared to be justification for the proposals, in part, and he would allow the destinations asked for with the exception of Ayr and Prestwick, which were already adequately covered by Central S.M.T. and British Railways.
SEVENTY WITNESSES WHEN Loch LomOnd Bus Service applied to the Scottish Traffic Commissioners in Glasgow last week for a weekly service to link housing schemes in the Vale of Leven with British Railways' Blue Trains service, 70 women witnesses arrived in two buses to support the application. Mr. J. Law, for Loch Lomond, asked for a circular service from Balloch to Alexandria with half-hourly timings. The application was opposed by the Central S.M.T. Co. Ltd. for whom Mr. R. Farrell claimed that the company served the area adequately and as the existing operator was entitled to maintenance of the status quo; it would lose traffic if the new service were granted.
After a substantial amount of evidence had been heard the case was .adjourned.