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Private operator wins express service

17th November 1972
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Keywords : Mauchline, Ayr

• Evidence by independent passengers helped a private Ayrshire bus operator to secure an express service in the face of opposition from Western SMT.

Mr A. B. Birnie, chairman of the Scottish Traffic Commissioners, granted an express licence to Pettigrew Bros, of Mauchline, Ayrshire, to run a service from Mauchline to the South of Scotland Electricity Board area headquarters at Holmston, Ayr. The case was heard in Glasgow on Monday.

Mr J. Law, for Pettigrew Bros, said the company had been operating a contract service over the route for two years until September 29. Before that date the Electricity Board had paid the contract under a disturbance allowance following the movement of the hq from Mauchline to Holmston. The men would now have to pay their own fare.

Mr Adam Pettigrew, told the Commissioners: "A 10-journey ticket will cost about £1.70 with journey time around 25 minutes. The men are at present travelling by various means between Mauchline and Holmston and if they go by service bus it adds two hours to their working day".

Mr Archibald McIntyre, an electricity board employee, said that since the service ended he had been depending on lifts in private cars.

"Western SMT was not given the opportunity of tendering for the service two years ago," said Mr Peter Duncan, assistant transport manager. "We are now prepared to offer a direct service between the two points."

In giving his decision, Mr Birnie said: "Any losses Western may incur because of the situation between the end of September and the present will be trifling."


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