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"No Favour for State Companies"

25th April 1952, Page 63
25th April 1952
Page 63
Page 63, 25th April 1952 — "No Favour for State Companies"
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THE alleged tendency of Licensing Authorities to favour State passenger transport undertakings at the expense of small private operators was criticized, last_ week, at a meeting in Newcastle-on-Tyne of northern mem bars of the Passenger Vehicle Opera

tors' Association. .

A resolution was passed demanding that the public should be allowed free choice of transport, that full regard should be paid to public needs and that the discretion of the Authorities should not be fettered or biased in favour of the Railway Executive or the State bus COITI panies.

Mr. H. L. Walker, head of Layfield Bus Services, Ltd., said that he did not understand the attitude of the Government. " It would be better to have a Government that would nationalize us rather than one which would paralyze us." he declared.

Mr. F. A. Walker, national secretary of the P.V.O.A., said that appeal procedure had been workino(= well, but something seemed to have gone radically wrong with it. He referred to 13 cases concerning military camp services in which the Authorities had granted licences despite opposition from the Railway Executive, which had appealed. The Ministry Of ('ransport inspectors had upheld the decisions, but the Minister had contradicted the in. Mr. T. 11. Campbell Wardlaw, solicitor, said that free operators were having a lean time at the hands of the Authorities, who seemed to be working to a common policy advantageous to the Stale undertakings, althOugh no directive had been given by the Minister, it was time a halt was called.