Railways Objection to Northern Tours " , Swap" Application Fails
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GAINST objection by British Rail
ways the Northern . Traffic Commissioners, at Barrow-in-Furness .last week, granted an application by. r Grange Tours; Ltd., of Morecambe, to substitution of two new tours for :two specified on the existing licence.
For the applicants, Mr. J. Budth. said they proposed a. seven-day all-inclusive tour to Southseaf and would surrender a six-day tour to London and Brighton; and a new seven-day tour either to Paignton or Torquay in exchange for a seven-day tour of Cheddar, Devon and Cornwall.
Both the tours which were to be dropped involved one-night stays on the outward journey. Customers were asking for a wider variety of tours while South Coast hotels were asking for six-night stays instead of shorter periods. The latter were seeking to extend their season by early and late bookings and would allow height-of-season bookings for six nights a Week if the company would extend the season at each end.
There were no other extended tour operators involved except their associated company, 'Florence Motors, and it was difficult to see how the railways were affected as they did not provide for holidays of that type.
Evidence for British Railways was that the proposed tours were tantamount to an express service and could affect rail bookings.
Granting the application, the chairman, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, said the applicants' patrons Were not the sort of people who would book by rail and go on their own; they were people who wanted the inclusive holidays which the coach company offered.