Excursion Transfer Opposed
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WHEN Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., last Friday applied to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners for the renewal and transfer to the company of an excursion licence from Kippax held by the Kippax and District Motor Co., Ltd., it was claimed that they were seeking to provide a new service from Garforth, a town never served on the licence. This submission was made at Leeds by Mr. J. Evans on behalf of Mr. W. Wood, of Garforth, who, with British Railways, objected to the application.
Mr. J. bjalcolin Barr, for Wallace Arnold, said the application was mainly for economy and convenience of internal organization. Kippax were taken over in June, 1956, mainly to obtain stage services. If the excursions continued to be run by Kippax, it would be necessary to operate on hire, as their vehicles were not suitable.
To clarify the licence conditions they were seeking also to re-route excursions .through the centre of Garforth, and to link with the Wallace Arnold Castleford licence, where destinations were COMMOtt.
. Mr. Evans said that Wallace Arnold were asking to renew a licence which had existed since the passing of the 1930 Act, although they knew it had not been used for 20 years.
Mr. Wood, who had operated private parties from Garforth for many years and had sought a licence before the Wallace Arnold application was lodged, should be protected.
Mr. T. B. Atkinson, for British Railways, said they had filled the excursion gap in Garforth and any grant must result in abstraction of railway traffic.
Decision was reserved.
FAULTY VEHICLES: £79 FINES
FINES totalling £79 were imposed at Perth Sheriff Court this week on D. W. Watson and Sons, Ltd., Loanhead, and three of their drivers, on charges concerning the state of vehicles. These included using two lorries with inefficient steering, and using vehicles with wings and wheels in dangerous condition. Bolts securing the cab and fuel tank to the chassis of another vehicle were stated to be dangerous.
Mr. D. W. Watson pleaded guilty, and admitted that he had used a lorry which was prohibited.
TYRE TENDERS COMPLAINT
.1-1 A COMPLAINT is to be made to
the Board of Trade by Newcastle upon Tyne Transport Committee that when tenders were invited for the supply of tyres, for motorbuses and trolleybuses, identical quotations were submitted by eight companies. The Dunlop, Firestone, Goodyear, Avon, Pirelli, Michelin, India and North British concerns were each said to have tendered £34,150 for motorbus tyres and 08,321 for trolleybus tyres.
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