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Excursion Operators Accuse

22nd November 1957
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

RECENT applications by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., had led excursion operators to believe that the company were deliberately setting out to attack them, the North Western Traffic Commissioners were told last week. Mr.. H. Backhouse said the excursion operators were taking 'a serious view of the unlimited duplication on Ribble stage service& He was qppearing for W. Robinson and Sons .(areat Harwood), Ltd., and Ribblesdale Coachways, Ltd., who objected to an application by • Ribble for a new stage service "between Burnley and Great Harwood.

• Mr. F. D. Walker; for Ribble, said the • application was a result of British Railways' proposal to close the loop line. between Blackburn and Burnley, via Padiham, which would come into effect on November 30. They thought the additional traffic could be handled by their existing services, with the exception of workers travelling between Burnley and Great Harwood, via Clayton-leMoors.

it was proposed to run a Monday-toFriday service for workers, but, in addition, they wanted to operate journeys to and from Burnley for football matches, to cater for football traffic formerly carried by rail.

Mr. Backhouse submitted that Ribble were licensed for football excursions from Great Harwood to Burnley, but had not operated for some years. The objectors had operated regularly to 18 matches a season by co-ordinating their services. Winter was the excursion operators' lean time, and 90 per cent, of their traffic was from football excursions.

Mr. Walker replied that Ribble were the natural heirs to the railway. Allega tions of interference with excursion operators were fantastic, as the company depended on many of them for their summer hiring.

Mr. F. Williamson, chairman, said the workers' service would be granted, but the football operations would be limited to one vehicle on each Saturday until June 30, 1958, to see how the objectors were affected.

OBITUARY

WE regret to announce the deaths of VV MR, NEIL C. MCPHERSON and MR. G. W. R. BUSH.

Mr. McPherson had been NorthEastern divisional manager of British Road Services for seven years when he retired through ill-health in 1955. Previously he was divisional road haulage officer for Wales and then for the 'Northern and Yorkshire areas. He was 65.

Mr. Bush, who was 64, was manager of the Cropper and Calthrop Transport Co., Ltd. He had been in poor health for some time. Earlier in his career, Mr. Bush worked with British Road Services.

BRIDGEMASTER'S OXFORD TRIAL

AN A.E.C. Bridgemaster 72-seat bus was put into experimental service in

Oxford on Tuesday. City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., reached agreement with local officials of the Transport and General Workers' Union, who had at first been concerned about the vehicle's seating capacity.

Mr. W. M. Dravers, managing director of the company, said the performance of the Bridgemaster would be closely watched. They were also investigating the possibility of introducing one-man buses on some country routes.


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