Yorkshire tours get green light
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TWO Yorkshire coach operators succeeded at their second attempt to obtain licences for the operation of continental tours, when they appeared before the Yorkshire traffic commissioners at Leeds.
In September, Jaronda Travel and J. H. Thornes, both of Selby, applied for separate licences to operate five-day duration tours to Belgium and Holland, Belgium and France. and Carentan and Brittany. After it was said that joint operation was proposed, the commissioners held that the applications required republication.
The applicants complained that the applications had been made in their original form, following advice from the commissioners' office, and the abortive public inquiry had cost them a great deal of money.
In December the commissioners considered a joint application by the two operators, which was opposed by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd.
Questioned by Mr Stephen Walker, for the applicants, Mr J. B. Parkin, licensing officer of Wallace Arnold, agreed that in 1975 only one per cent, some 29 passengers, of the total traffic on the "mini-break" programme came from the Selby area.
He also agreed there was no return journey on the Selby feeder service for continental tours. He said this was because they returned at different times from the British tours and the traffic on the continental tours alone did not justify the operation of a feeder service.
Granting the application, chairman, Major-General V. H. J. Carpenter, said the commissioners had been impressed by the public witnesses, but they felt the application ambitious and the licence would be restricted to one vehicle on each departure.