It's 'tit for tat'
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COMPETITION between National Travel and Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd, in the field of extended tours, is calming down.
Hearings listed to take place before the Traffic Commissioners on three days during November and December at Manchester, have been cancelled, following a "tit-for-tat" agreement between the parties.
Wallace Arnold withdrew objections to the addition of 26 destinations to the 11 Manchester area licences of National Travel (North West) Ltd and to similar applications by Yelloway Motor Services Ltd, Rochdale, for hearing last week.
The two companies had applied to take up options negotiated when similar tours were granted to other Manchester operators earlier this year.
National Travel (North West) plans to offer its own package arrangements for short tours, to supplement the country-side programme of National. They will be advertised and marketed locally in the North West.
Wallace Arnold were opposing, in particular, a Dutch Bulb Fields circular tour of three to four days, via Hull Docks.
It had itself applied to add Hull Docks, for the Continent, as a destination on a feeder service from Manchester into Leeds — due to be heard on December 15 and opposed by National Travel (North West).
As a quid pro quo, this objection has also been withdrawn, Wallace Arnold opposition to the linking of tour licences by National Travel (North East) Ltd, which sought backings for licences starting from Sheffield and Doncaster, was withdrawn as well.
This followed the recent agreement at top level with National that all linking arrangements should be attached to licence conditions,