Strong Opposition to Extra Tours : Information Sought
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I F the application were granted, it would increase Pleasureways' tour schedule by 50 per cent. No other fantail tour operator in the north-west had ever asked for so much.
This was said by Mr. A. Robinson, objecting for Robinsons (Great Harwood), Ltd., before the North Western Licensing Authority, at Manchester, last week, to applications by Pleasureways (1955), Ltd., Oldham, to add four new seven-day tours from Manchester.
Other objectors were Shearings Tours (Manchester), Ltd.; Happiway Tours, Ltd.; Yelloway Motor Services, Ltd.; Scout Motor Services, Ltd.; W. C. Standerwick, Ltd.; Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.; Florence Motors, Ltd., Morecambe; Stanley Spencers Tours (Manchester), Ltd.; North Western Road Car Co., Ltd.; Associated Motorways; Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd.; and British Railways.
Four New Destinations
Mr. Backhouse said it was desired to qdd seven-day tours to Penzance, Ten by, Clacton-on-Sea and Dunoon, to the existing group operating to Brighton, Weston-super-Mare and Cromer, which had a vehicle authorization of 12.
The, company had been under 'pressure from passengers and booking agents to provide better variety. What they were asking to do was to take the same people in the same vehicles to more places.
They believed there was no direct express road or rail facilities to Penzance, Tenby or Clacton. The Scottish tour had been operated for 20 years without licence by rail and ferry to Dunoon and thence by a local operator. None of the objectors' facilities could be damaged if the vehicle allowance was not increased. Vehicles used on the new tours would reduce competition to destinations already authorized.
A backing application for a similar group of tours starting from Halifax would be temporarily withdrawn, added Mr. Backhouse, as a number of other considerations had arisen.
Tours Without Licences Mr. S. Bond, for Spencers Tours, said that hundreds of rail and other tours were run by unlicensed operators. If the Dunoon application were granted it would be dangerous to established operators.
For Happiways, Mr. F. Robinson, pointed out that any extra facilities granted outside the peak Wakes Weeks period of mid-June to Mid-August must take traffic from the hurntreds of tours already on offer.
Mr. James Booth, for Ribble and associated companies, asked on what authority passengers were carried from Yorkshire to Manchester in one coach for more than one destination and changed to a vehicle on the Manchester licence.
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Mr. Backhouse objected that such questions were irrelevant to the application and must be dealt with by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority. The objectors were trying to obtain information in advance of the Yorkshire application. The North-Western backing gave authority for coaches from Manchester to operate under' both licences.
The hearing was adjourned until September.
HOOTERS SOUND AS ELECTRICS REVERSE FOLLOWING a demonstration last week, 12 of Birmingham Corporation's electric refuse collectors are to be fitted experimentally with a hooter which sounds automatically when the vehicles are reversed.
As designed, the hooter sounds at 9 ft. intervals when a vehicle is being reversed. Police officials who were present at the demonstration' suggested that the intervals be increased to 15 ft. and that the volume of the signal be reduced.. It is the modified design that the corporation will fit. The hooter costs less than £10.
OLDHAM EXPORTS UP 50% XPORTS of Oldham and Son, Ltd., La increased by over 50 per cent, in the year ended March 31, stated Mr. J.. Oldham, chairman, in his annual statement. Home sales rose, and in western and eastern parts of this country additional sales and service facilities were newly made available. A recent development by the company's research section was a new type of battery employing a novel design of double sleeve-plate construction. Mr. Id Oldham claimed that it would confer important advantages in capacity and length of life for battery-electric road vehicles and works .trucks.