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THE battle between two local opera' tors as to who should provide excursions and tours for the Holywell area of North Wales was carried a step farther at Llandudno last week, when Messrs. P. and 0. Lloyd, Bagillt, applied to the North Western Traffic Commissioners for additional picking-up points on the former Wakley licence from Holywell. Decision was reserved.
E. H. Phillips Motor Services, Holywell, objected. Their application for a new licence from Holywell, heard at the same time as Lloyd's take-over application (The Commercial Motor, October 26, 1956), is still the subject of a reserved decision.
Mr. E. A. Whitehead, for Lloyd, said that in 1954 they applied for an excursion licence from the town and received a pahial grant of destinations not on the licence then held by Wakley from Holywell and Flint. Wakley's had five excursion licences in Flintshire, but only one in the area. Lloyd purchased the local business and in December, were granted a licence for one vehicle from Flint, picking up at Holywell.
Wakley's had not operated from Flint with their own vehicles since the war, and the Commissioners had since cut their vehicle allowance from 10 to six.
The present application was to add picking-up points at Greenfield and 13agillt, formerly refused to protect
Wakley. Lloyd were now the only licensed operators in the areas, apart from Crosville's football excursions. Mr. E. H. Phillips said they had kept the Wakley licence from Flint and Holywell alive for three seasons by operating it on hire, and when it was transferred to Lloyd, had been given no opportunity to purchase. As the stage-carriage operator in Holywell with Crosville, he was entitled to consideration. With decision reserved on his own application, he could neither operate nor appeal.
BRANCH-LINE SAVING
A T least £110,543 a year will be saved by the closing of railway branch lines in 1956, bringing the total annual saving for branch lines closed since 1950 to over £.1.5m. This is stated by the Central Transport Consultative Committee in their 1956 report. The committee advocate the use of light Diesel rail cars on unremunerative services, and quote experience in Ireland where such cars attract traffic. The annual report of the Scottish Transport Users' Consultative Committee records submissions from two persons concerning smoking on buses. Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., examined the position and decided to prohibit smoking on the upper decks of doubledeckers, but not on single-deckers. Exceptiohs to the rule concerning double-deckers could be made in the case of vehicles operating on certain works or miners' services.