Stage Service Like Excursion
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BECAUSE a proposed stage-carriage service was too much like an excursion, the North Western Traffic Commissioners, on Tuesday, refused Blackpool Transport Department permission to run it. The service would have started on the promenade and made a round trip via Stanley Park. Twelve objectors, including Scout Motor Services, Ltd., and W, C. Standerwick, Ltd., considered that it did not represent an attempt to meet a genuine stage-carriage need, and that the fare was less than any excursion operator could charge. Private operators, said Mr. F. D. Walker, for Scout and Stamierwiek, had to provide their own stands to prevent congestion on the promenade, yet it was from there that the department wished to run.
Mr. j. Booth, for the dePaftment, stated that no evidence to show that abstraCtion would be caused had been. produced.
. In essential' respects; rernarked Mr. F. Williamson; chairman; the proposed serNice 'was of -the excursion type. The Cominissioners' chief objection was to the 'staring .'point,': where. Congestion could .ne%caused hy•waiting-vehfcles.-'. "The 'case • had been part-heard last Angsfst • . ' • —