Rail solicitor chided in Torbay bid
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THE solicitor for British Railways (one of the .1. objectors to the Yorkshire-Torbay Pools bid) was chided by the chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, Mr. H. E. Robson, at Leeds on Wednesday. Mr. Wrottesley's lengthy and detailed cross-examination of Mr. Herbert Allen, general manager of Yelloway Motor Services, led Mr. Robson to say: "If your examination of rail schedules later on is as extensive as your cross-examination of Mr. Allen, I don't know when this case will end!"
Mr. Wrottesley said that in a long experience of traffic courts he had never before been involved in such voluminous paper work.
On the sixth day of the marathon hearing (which continued on Thursday and Friday) three public witnesses spoke in support of direct services from Yorkshire towns to Cheltenham and Mr. Allen continued his evidence.
When Mr. Wrottesley suggested that the schedules of passengers booked so far did not show extensive demand, Mr. Allen retorted that "A bucket full of water is made up of raindrops". In effect, he said, the proposed services would be in a "thick pipeline from Yorkshire to Cheltenham where the traffic flow diversifies".