Struggle for Summer Traffic
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A PPLICATIONS by two operators .1-1. in respect of express services between Newark and Scarborough in the summer were, on Monday, adjourned by the East Midland Licensing Authority until June 15.
Messrs. Skill's Motor Coaches, Nottingham, sought permission to run a service between the two towns, with picking-up points at Tuxford, Retford, Ran by and Blyth, and setting-down points at Bridlington, Hunmanby and Filey, on Saturdays from June to September.
One of the objecting concerns, Messrs. Thomas Motor Tours, Newark, applied for a variation of their existing service to allow them to run it throughout the summer, instead of only in the Newark holiday week, and to permit them to pick up at Tuxford and Retford.
G. Howlett and Son (Quorn), Ltd., and British Railways, also opposed Sk ill's application.
For Skill's, Mr. H. Massey said their service from Nottingham to Scar
borough, which had run for many years, was patronized by a greal many people living east of the route, who used taxis or stage services to link up with it. It was to cater for these people that the application was being made.
Mr. S. A. Skill said that present bookings from Newark, Retford and Blyth would provide enough passengers to fill a coach on each service.
For the railways, Mr. J. G. Dixon said that bookings frOm Newark and Retford for the Nottingham-Scarborough service had steadily declined since 1952. "You seem to have missed the bus. You should have applied for this licence then," he commented.
Saying that the decrease was experienced by most stage operators, Mr. Skill suggested that one reason was the rise in the number of people owning cars.
Mr. A. Rothera said of the Thomas Motor Tours application that the popularity of the service could be judged from the fact that on one Saturday his clients had 108 applications for seats.