Public "Deliberately Starved " A MONG reasons quoted by the North Western
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Road Car Co., Ltd., for ' the limitation of the vehicle allowance of Hartles Tours, Ltd., Buxton, was that the public in that area had been deliberately " starved " of vehicles. At Manchester last week }Taffies sought to take over the Buxton section of the business of Lansdowne Motors, Ltd.
Previously, the applicant's business had been operated under the name of W. D. Hartle and there had been two setting down and picking up points at Harpur Hill, Buxton, and The Avenue, Peak Dale. The new company wished to operate from the old Lansdowne headquarters at The Quadrant, Buxton, but still keep the two established points on their licence. Mr. W. D. Hartle, managing director, said that on his existing licences he had four vehiCles based at Buxton.
• Mr. D. L. Fytche, objecting on behalf of North Western, observed that taking into account the Lansdowne and the Hartle licences, on an average there would be four or five vehicles based at Buxton on Sunday evenings. There was a pressing problem of catering for Sunday evening circular tours which were organized by North Western.
Mr. W. Woolley, assistant traffic manager of North Western, said that on June 21, 1959, they had refused 115 passengers on evening excursions. On two occasions they had, by mistake, exceeded their vehicle allowance.
, Mr. Fytche suggested that on Sundays the Lansdowne vehicles had never been fully utilized and yet North Western were turning passengers away through lack of authorized vehicles.
Mr. J. Backhouse, for Raffles, said there was an obvious need for the evening facilities and in reality North Western were supporting the application. If North Western had vehicles available they could be hired by other operators and serve the public in this way.
The application was granted by Mr. F. Williamson, chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners. He suggested, however, that if, in the course of two months, Hartles could not cope with the residue of Sunday evening traffic because they had insufficient vehicles or could not hire, North Western could apply for dispensation or for a substantive variation for more facilities.