Two Grants For Brunt's Coaches
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ANapplication by Brunt's Coaches Ltd., of Hatfield, Herts, concerning an additional picking-up point at Whaley Road. Potters Bar, was granted by the Metropolitan deputy Licensing Authority in London on Tuesday. An unopposed application by Brunt's to extend their express coach service by allowing it to start on the last Saturday in June was also granted.
Mr. James Amphlett, for Brunt's, said the express licence application was simply to cover new staggered holiday arrangements at the De HaviIland aircraft factory at Hatfield, Regarding the additional picking-up point in Potters Bar, Mr. Amphlett said that many of the company's excursions already had the right to pick up at Whaley Road, but it could not do so on two licences which covered excursions to Margate, Brighton, Ramsgate, Eastbourne, Bognor Regis and Southsea and Portsmouth.
With two original objectors, Orange Luxury Coaches Ltd. and George Ewer Ltd., Brunt's had agreed to use the picking-up point only 15 times for each tour throughout the year, and the two objectors had then withdrawn.
Mr. Amphlett produced letters of support from various Potters Bar organizations and also the local council. He also called seven local witnesses.
Objectors to the application were London Transport, Southdown Motor Services Ltd., Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd., and Lees Coaches of Barnet, who claimed that an additional picking-up point in Potters Bar would abstract traffic from its services.
Giving his decision the deputy L.A., Mr. C. J. Macdonald, said he thought the effect of granting the application to' the objectors would be negligible.