Rising Demand for Centred Tours T HE demand for centred tours
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out of season had risen to such an extent that it was quite impossible for an operator such as Heaps Tours to cope with applications from the public to go on them. This was the reason that was given to the Yorkshire Traffic 'Commissioners at Leeds on Monday when an increase in the number of departures was applied for. The application was opposed by Wallace Arnold and Feather Brothers.
Heaps, asked for an additional .18 departures on the Dunoon tour, eight more on Brighton, and an increase of one departure between April 1 and Whitsuntide and the last two weeks in September and the -whole month of October on •Strn-raer.
Mr. D. Herrod, for Heaps, said that the Dunoon tour demand had gone up by 300 per cent and Brighton by 215 per cent since 1955, and though Stranraer was only granted in 1962,and it was' orily possible to run four .departurei in September and October each tour carried 39 passengers in a 41-seater coach,
Mr. F. S. Marshall, for Wallace Arnold Tours and Feather Brothers, Pointed out that on a shorter term basis Heaps had carried fewer passengers on the Dunoon tour than in 1961. • Mr. Marshall said that at* the present time Wallace Arnoldcould still offer 10,000 vacancies on out of season tours.
Mr. F. D. Reacroft, general manager of Heaps Tours Ltd., replied that though his company might not be using its full vehicles allocation on all tours it was certainly using it on its out of season tours. The chairman of the Traffic Commissioners, Major F. S. Eastwood, adjourned the hearing,