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Coach-air Holidays Compete With Continental Tours, Say Objectors
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MORE facilities for coach-air holidays would compete with the operation
of Continental coach tours, the North Western Traffic Commissioners were told at Manchester last week. Four tours operators who opposed the extension of coach-air holidays to Jersey were, however, told by Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, that these services were new and unlike anything they could offer.
W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., and Scout Motor .Services, • Ltd., who provided vehicles for the Blackpool-Blackbushe 'airport section of the Jersey coach-air holidays organized by Gay Tours, Blackpool, booking agents, sought to run them during the last three weeks in September and the first week in October.
For the companies, Mr. F. D. Walker explained that they were first allowed to .operate the services in August, 1958, when they were permitted. to work 'during Pine, July, August and the first week in September, with picking-up points at Preston, Chorley and Wigan. A year later. the companies were authorized, to operate in May.
Services to be Split
The applicants also sought to reVise the Services by splitting them at Chorley.and .rejoining at Knatsford. One route would have picking-up points at Lytham and St. Agnes, and the other at Bolton, Walkden, Manche.ster, Altrincham and Krmtsford.
Mr. N. Corkhill, managing director of Gay Tours, said that 633 passengers were carried to Jersey in 1959. The objectors could not offer journeys to any airport for passengers to Jersey, or even extended tours to the island, . , It was essential to charter planes because scheduled aircraft from Manchester and Blackpool did not have sufficient seats and could not meet lastminute bookings. He did not think that Gay. Tours, as booking agents, would attract customers belonging to other operators.
For the objectors, Smith's Tours (Wigan), Ltd., Stanley Spencer Tours (Manchester), Ltd., Happiway Tours (Manchester). Ltd., and Shearing Tours (Manchester), Ltd., Mr. J. Backhouse observed that during a similar application in the Yorkshire Traffic Area, the previous week, it had been suggested that Blackbushe airport was to be closed.
Drop in Traffic
Mr. F. H. Robinson, manager of Shearing, said that their passengers had declined on some tours in 1959. They would be prepared to provide facilities for Jersey if there were a demand.
The Commissioners granted an extension of the period of operation only in respect of the route via Lytham and St. Annes, reserving their decision in respect of the other.
[The application to which Mr. Backhouse referred was an unsuccessful one by Yorkshire Pool Services to run an express service from Bradford to Blackbushe airport on behalf of Gay Tours. Sheffield United Tours, Ltd., and the railways objected.]
Waste If Railways are Not Fully Used
THERE was nothing wrong when an I old-established company expanded their business, but wasteful and unnecessary competition would result if railway facilities were not fully employed. This was submitted to Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy Licensing . Authority, on Tuesday at Macclesfield, by Mr. G. H. P. Beames, for British li.ailways.
His clients were,objecting to an application by Hinckley's, Ltd., Macclesfield, to replace a vehicle of 41 tons on B licence by three totalling 13+ tons. The applicants wished to carry goods as required for their associated companiesKingscliffe Super Refractories, Ltd., Hinckley's Silica Sand, Ltd., and
burhills, Ltd. .
Mr. P. Melville, traffic consultant of the four companies, said that they wanted to change their transport policy and rely upon their own vehicles rather than those of private hauliers and the railways. Mr. Beames contended that there would he an 'excess of .facilities if the application were granted, There was no-indication, he said, that the applicants were suffering from transport difficulties_ They had no complaints with regard either to road• or rail services. Mr. Melville replied that: the companies were in a highly competitive market, and service to customers was of prime importance. It was not intended to replace all hired transport..
Mr. J. D. Thorpe, quarry manager, said that production hadtrebled between 1955-59, and the companies' quarries were being operated 14 hours a day. The extra vehicles were vital and there would not he "too great a Ion" for the railways.
It was submitted by Mr. Beames that the ' -application. should be rejected because of the absence of evidence of inconvenience through transport difficulties.
Mr. Jolliffe reserved his decision.
DOG OWNER PAYS £94 3s. DAMAGES
T" owner of a dog was ordered to pay 194 3s. damages to the proprietors of a lorry at Leigh County Court last week. It was stated that the dog had run out in front of the vehicle, owned by Messrs. F. F. N. Townsend, and that as the driver braked the load of steel shifted and damaged the cab.
The defence held the driver to be negligent as he had not run over the dog, but Judge F. Raleigh said that to brake was an instinctive reaction. The dog's owner was negligent because he had not called the animal to heel.
LOOSE LOAD: £4 FINE
A FTER.pleading guilty by letter, John r-1 Withy, Farm Road, Oldham, Lanes, a lorry driver, was fined £4 at Bootle magistrates court, last week, on a charge of using a vehicle with an insecure load. It was stated that part of the lorry's Toad of cotton was found lying in the road.