Competition Allowed by 1930 Act
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THE Road Traffic Act, 1930, did not state that there should be no competition between operators, said Mr.
A. T. Hanlon, chairman, Northern Traffic Commissioners, at Stockton-onTees on Tuesday.
He was giving the Commissioners' decision to grant additional journeys on an express licence between Norton-onTees and the works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Wilton, to Bee Line Roadways (Tees-side), Ltd.
Mr. Hanlon said that the objectors, Tees-side RaiHess Traction Board, Middlesbrough Corporation and United Automobile Services, Ltd., claimed that there would be abstraction. The question was, he said: "Does this constitute wasteful competition?" The duties of the Commissioners were to prevent this, added Mr. Hanlon, and he justified the grant by saying that the application had features which distinguished it from the well-accepted principles.
The service had been operated for a number of years and employees at Wilton had increased from 2.500, in 1951, to 10,500, in 1959. I.C.I. were concerned at the increase of workers using private cars to get to worlc One witness, a shift worker at Wilton, said that he would stop working at such an inaccessible place if he had to make two or three changes of bus to get there.
Additional picking-up -points, which were sought in Middlesbrough, were refused.